A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching
The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tra...
I was a total dork in high school.
You put high heels on and you change.
High expectations are the key to everything.
I always wear high heels.
My parents are high school sweethearts.
I went to high school with Al Capone.
I was a high school throw-out.
In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take this trend as an internal ...
