Arne Glimcher Quotes

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

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.

That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a sudden, they have a new impression of everything around them.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

Art has to be reflective of our society.

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

Fashion is not separate from art. It is inextricably woven into how we open ourselves to the world and articulates the exchanges of power both real and imagined.

Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit another culture, place, and time period, and address the issues of those time periods that resonate with our own time.