America Quote by Terry Teachout

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with,…

— Samuel R. Delany

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer…

— Darren Criss

I think the great thing about art is that you can create it anywhere. I made a record of cover tunes on my laptop…

— Kasey Anderson

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who…

— Jeffrey Lewis

It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its…

— Thomas Mann

Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that was super-polarizing…

— Kanye West

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

— Thomas A. Edison

“Music requires a particular type of education which is simply not given to most people. And, as a result, it’s set further apart. It…

— Edward W. Said

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently…

— Oscar Wilde

“It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than…

— Robert Hughes

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good”

— Oscar Wilde