Art Quote by Steven Moore

“While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own impoverishment. (Beyond…

— David N. Elkins

“The dominant theories of elite art and criticism in the 20th century grew out of a militant denial of human nature. One legacy is…

— Steven Pinker

“Art is subjective and art as a form of entertainment escapism is as high art as any.”

— Miranda Hart

“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I argue--by reason…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr

“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.”

— Anonymous

“The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead…

— Ted Gioia

“Today, no one is scandalized; society has found ways to nullify the provocative potential of a work of art, adopting before it an attitude…

— André Breton

“Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are.”

— Roger Ebert

“High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people, it relegates…

— Thomas Kinkade

Art is the questioning of culture

— Gerard Mortier

“The morality of artists is replaced by aesthetics.”

— Herman Hesse

“Art is central to all our lives, not just the better-off and educated. . . I know that from my own story, and from…

— Jeanette Winterson