Art Quote by Twyla Tharp

“To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to…

— Dorianne Laux

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

— Uta Hagen

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art…

— Philippe Petit

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists…

— Athol Fugard

It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but in our…

— Lexi Alexander

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it…

— Adam McKay

Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and…

— Nathan Oliveira

I can truthfully say, in arts I have pretty much seen and done it all and, at my age, I have no patience with…

— Donald Lambert

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

— Harold Rosenberg

In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they…

— Aldous Huxley

“It’s up to the writer and the artist to give voice to these people. There are two impulses in art: one is rebellious and…

— Joyce Carol Oates