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Quotes About Opinion

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
~ Salman Rushdie
If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.
~ Winston Churchill
Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.
~ Deborah Tannen
Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.
~ Sophie Kinsella
If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake.
~ Dave Barry
My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'
~ Pete Seeger
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
~ Andy Warhol
Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.
~ Richard Serra
I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.
~ Kehinde Wiley
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution
~ Unknown
An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.
~ Robert Breault
I personally always hated Pop art.
~ Peggy Guggenheim
Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.
~ Ziggy Marley
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.
~ Mark Twain
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
~ George Orwell
For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
~ Annie Lennox
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.
~ Paul Cezanne
The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
~ Oscar Wilde
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
~ James Thurber
You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.
~ Sean Stone
Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.
~ Unknown
Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.
~ Sara Blecher