I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. Barbara Kingsolver artfailgood Change image and share on social
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. Virginia Woolf artcandyhuman Change image and share on social
For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!' Victor Pinchuk artcentercontemporary Change image and share on social
You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour. Arlo Guthrie advantageartcheap share on social
Interviewing is not a democratic art. Andrew O'Hagan artdemocraticinterview Change image and share on social
If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? Ai Weiwei artpainpeople Change image and share on social
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. Andy Warhol abstractageart Change image and share on social
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art. Andy Warhol artreal Change image and share on social
Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking? Arthur Phillips artconveyconvince share on social
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. Antoni Tapies artcustomdamage share on social
