Art Quote by Tom Wolfe

You are a star only when the public accepts you, and it doesn't matter where you are coming from, and what kind of a…

— Rajesh Khattar

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases…

— Seth Godin

“Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.”

— Jan Zwicky

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

— Anonymous

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“For some death is an art, for others it is merely an inevitability.”

— Sadie S. Forsythe

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

— Roger Scruton

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded…

— Tom Wolfe

“If the West once undermined and helped to ultimately defeat the USSR by uniting free market economics, cool culture, and democratic politics into one…

— Peter Pomerantsev

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

— Henri Matisse

On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions…

— C. D. Innes