Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word. Mstislav Rostropovich absolutelyartexplain Change image and share on social
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't. Jonathan Raban artcriticeat Change image and share on social
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition. F. Sionil Jose artcriticalfact Change image and share on social
I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a price for that art to be created and whether or not I want to appreciate that art on their backs. Roxane Gay artbackcontext share on social
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. Malcolm de Chazal artgodnature Change image and share on social
I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art. Kathleen Hanna artmakewant Change image and share on social
When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring. Richard Phillips artdadagreat Change image and share on social
When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise. Richard Phillips afraidartassign share on social
I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive. John Musker animateartcombine share on social
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art. James Fenton abstruseageart share on social