Cultural Art Quotes

I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

Comparing Oceanic art generally with Negro art, it has a livelier, thin flicker, but much of it is more two-dimensional and concerned with pattern making. Yet the carvings of New Ireland have, besides their vicious kind of vitality, a unique spatial sense, a bird-in-a-cage form.

The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.