Quotes About Culture

Art is fantastic, but it's also that you come to Paris, you call me, I come to New York, I come to visit you, we hang out together, and that's art.

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings.

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.

All art is political, all art is a martial one.

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in the world!

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.