„Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michaelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth. Well, we show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.“

„You wouldn't believe the number of people who hang the electric chair painting in the homes, especially if the colour of the canvas matches the curtains.“

—  Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987

As quoted in Marie Deparis (2009), "Mounir Fatmi: Gardons Espoir / Keeping Faith" (bilingual exhibition notice, as a retranslation from the French "On n'imagine pas le nombre de personnes qui accrocheraient chez elles le tableau de la chaise électrique, surtout si les coloris de la toile s'harmonisent avec les rideaux.")
1968 - 1974, Electric chair quote

„My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.“

—  Ai Weiwei Chinese concept artist 1957

2010-

„It’s been a remarkable few years for our Royal family - the Royal Wedding captured people’s hearts, the extraordinary and magnificent Jubilee and now this Royal birth. All to a family that has given this nation so much incredible service and they can know that a proud nation is celebrating with them a very proud, happy couple tonight.“

—  David Cameron Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1966

Remarks on the Royal birth http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10196324/David-Camerons-statement-on-the-royal-birth.html (22 July 2013)
2010s, 2013

„You wouldn't believe how many people will hang a picture of an electric chair in their room – especially if the color of the picture matches the curtains.“

—  Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987

As quoted in Geoff Nicholson (2002), Andy Warhol: A Beginner's Guide, London: Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 0-340-84620-8 [ISBN 978-0-340-84620-9]
1968 - 1974, Electric chair quote
Wariant: (You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.)

„Any place I hang my head is home.“

—  Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977

„Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.“

—  Harry Truman American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953) 1884 - 1972

„Hand in glove, the good people laugh, yes we may be hidden by rags,
But we've something they'll never have“

—  Morrissey English singer 1959

from the song "Hand In Glove"
From songs

„Donald Trump (clip): I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding.
Meredith Vieira (clip): You have people now, down there searching—
Trump (clip): Absolutely.
Vieira (clip): I mean, in Hawaii?
Trump (clip): Absolutely. And they cannot believe what they're finding.
Wolf Blitzer: All right, tell us what your people who were investigating in Hawaii, what they found.
Trump: Oh, we don't have to go into old news. That's old news.
Blitzer: Well, what did they find?
Trump: There's been plenty found. You can call many people. You can read many, many articles on the authenticity of the certificate. You can read many articles from just recently as to what the publisher printed in a brochure as to what Obama told him, as to where his place of birth is. And that's fine, Wolf.
Now, it's appropriate, I think, that we get to the subject of hand, which is — at hand, which is jobs, which is the economy, which is how our country is not doing well at all under this leadership, which is how are we going to do something about energy, which is really that things that I wanted to talk to you about, but you like to keep going back to the place of birth.“

—  Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

The Situation Room
CNN
2012-05-29, quoted in * 2012-05-29
Wolf Blitzer Spars With Donald Trump Over Obama's Birth Certificate
Elizabeth Flock
US News & World Report
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/05/29/wolf-blitzer-spars-with-donald-trump-over-obamas-birth-certificate
Referring to a 1991 promotional booklet by literary agency Acton & Dystel with bios of 89 authors, that erroneously described Barack Obama as "born in Kenya". http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/booklet.asp
2010s, 2012

„I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.“

—  Orson Welles American actor, director, writer and producer 1915 - 1985

„Looking back today over the years, we may well be proud of the work which our fellow citizens have done in India. There have, of course, been mistakes, there have been failures, but we can assert that our rule in India will stand comparison with that of any other nation which has been charged with the ruling of a people so different from themselves.“

—  Clement Attlee Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1883 - 1967

Speech https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1947-07-10/debates/584499a6-8830-4426-be23-7215df06d57e/IndianIndependenceBill#2442 in the House of Commons (10 July 1947).
1940s

„Far
We've been traveling far
Without a home
But not without a star.Free,
Only want to be free.
We huddle close;
Hang on to a dream.“

—  Neil Diamond American singer-songwriter 1941

America
Song lyrics, The Jazz Singer (1980)

„After all, many people feel today that it is morally indefensible to hang a man, even if he has raped and killed a child, but I could not forget how easily we ourselves had taken to killing during the war. Some of the most civilized people I had known had been the most proficient.“

—  Wilfred Thesiger, książka Arabian Sands

Źródło: Arabian Sands (1959), p. 94.

„We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.“

—  Billy Corgan American musician, songwriter, producer, and author 1967

Smashing Pumpkins (1996)

„The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.“

—  John Muir Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838 - 1914

Źródło: 1900s, Our National Parks (1901), chapter 10: The American Forests

„You hear people say, “Well, I’m an agnostic.” Really? You shouldn’t be proud to be an agnostic because the Latin equivalent is ignoramus. It’s the same word. I’ve never heard anybody say, “I’m personally an ignoramus.”“

—  John F. MacArthur American pastor and author 1939

But if you don’t know, you don’t know. That’s what an ignoramus is. If you have an open mind close it, would you please, before you destroy yourself. Close it.

"Scripture Is Sufficient" https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/80-420/scripture-is-sufficient (1 March 2015), Grace to You
2010s

„Instead of supposing that a work of art must be something that all can behold—a poem, a painting, a book, a great building—consider making your own life a work of art. You have yourself to begin with, and a time of uncertain duration to work on it. You do not have to be what you are, and even though you may be quite content with who you are, it will not be hard for you to think of something much greater that you might become. It need not be something spectacular or even something that will attract notice from others. What it will be is a kind of excellence that you project for yourself, and then attain—something that you can take a look at, with honest self-appraisal, and be proud of.“

—  Richard Taylor (philosopher) American philosopher, born 1919 1919 - 2003

Źródło: Restoring Pride: The Lost Virtue of Our Age (1995), p. 64

„Of course, of course. Even though if it wasn’t for what happened previously, all the success we had previously, it’s not like you can come straight from an underground record to Oscar status and be recognised by the people at the Academy. Me and Paul had a conversation about this actually when I got out of jail. I congratulated him because I came out like the day before it came on and I was like: ‘I’m proud of you’. And he told me: ‘Well don’t be proud of me because we couldn’t have did it without all the stuff you did’.“

—  Lord Infamous American rapper 1975 - 2013

Interview whit Lord Infamous - RIP - March 2009 https://medium.com/@daveyboysmith/interview-with-lord-infamous-rip-march-30th-2009-94dbfc2f0d9b

„What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen.“

—  Peter Ackroyd, książka The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

Page 7.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)

„Art shouldn’t be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.“

—  Genco Gulan contemporary artist 1969

Graf, Marcus. Concepual Colors of Genco Gulan, Revolver Publishing http://www.revolver-books.de/, 2012. ISBN-13: 978-3868952049.