Acceptable Quote by Thomas Hoving

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

— Antony Gormley

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected…

— David Rockefeller

Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

— Alain de Botton

Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in…

— Immortal Technique

There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have…

— Peter London

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

— Jane Alexander

As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete,…

— Robert Genn

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.

— Asger Jorn

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago...

— Thomas Hoving

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

— Frank Norris

Past art is subject to change.

— T. S. Eliot

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

— Joyce Cary