Famous Quotes
- It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
- Oscar Wilde on Art
- It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
- Walter Hagen on Art
- It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
- It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
- Robert Browning on Art
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein on Art
- It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
- Oscar Wilde on Art
- It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
- George Santayana on Art
- It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
- Ezra Pound on Art
- It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
- David Byrne on Art
- It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
- Dave Barry on Art
- It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden on Art
- It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
- Eddie Vedder on Art
- It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
- Robert Redford on Art
- It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- It's clever, but is it Art?
- Rudyard Kipling on Art
- It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
- Camille Paglia on Art
- It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.
- Henry Louis Gates on Art
- Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
- Art Blakey on Art
- Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Land really is the best art.
- Andy Warhol on Art
- Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on Art
- Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
- Igor Stravinsky on Art
- Let each man exercise the art he knows.
- Aristophanes on Art
- Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
- Henri Frederic Amiel on Art
- Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
- Joseph Beuys on Art
- Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
- Stella Adler on Art
- Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
- Woody Allen on Art
- Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
- Oscar Wilde on Art
- Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
- Charles De Lint on Art
- Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
- Samuel Butler on Art
- Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Art
- Life is short, the art long.
- Hippocrates on Art
- Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
- William Hazlitt on Art
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Samuel Butler on Art
- Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
- John W. Gardner on Art
- Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
- Lewis Mumford on Art
- Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
- Jean Anouilh on Art
- Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
- Robert Delaunay on Art
- Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter on Art
- Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.
- Glenn Hughes on Art
- Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
- William Ralph Inge on Art
- Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
- Jonathan Safran Foer on Art
- Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
- Boris Pasternak on Art
- Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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