Art Quote by Thomas Eakins

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

— Gutzon Borglum

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

— Raoul Dufy

Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.

— Gutzon Borglum

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

— E. J. Hughes

It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to…

— Lynn Nottage

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

— Kingsley Amis

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

— Sholom Aleichem

New artists will be discovered and trained. Moreover, when the artists who've gone abroad return home, they can share and pass on skills and…

— Ryan Cayabyab

There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I appreciate America as being the most artistic nation because of its diversity.

— Peter Max

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

— Henry Rollins

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in…

— Robert Henri