Exclusive Art Quotes

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.

I really like Adam Curtis' 'Century of Self.' It's about how artists have failed the general public by being so exclusive, like being in an echo chamber. I was definitely more like that in my early twenties - my music was completely inaccessible.

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.