Famous Quotes
- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
- W. H. Auden on Art
- 'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- 'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
- Helen Rowland on Art
- A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
- Ludwig Erhard on Art
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw on Art
- A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
- Charles Baudelaire on Art
- A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
- Hedy Lamarr on Art
- A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
- George Edward Moore on Art
- A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Art
- A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
- Albert Camus on Art
- A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
- Michelangelo on Art
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Albert Camus on Art
- A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
- Kemal Ataturk on Art
- A painting that is well composed is half finished.
- Pierre Bonnard on Art
- A picture is a poem without words.
- A picture is worth a thousand words.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Art
- A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
- Beverly Sills on Art
- A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
- Steve Prefontaine on Art
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
- Clive Bell on Art
- A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
- Henry Moore on Art
- A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
- W. H. Auden on Art
- A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
- Vladimir Nabokov on Art
- A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
- Eugene Ionesco on Art
- A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
- Oscar Wilde on Art
- A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
- Alexander Pope on Art
- A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
- Paul Cezanne on Art
- A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
- Gertrude Stein on Art
- Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
- Casey Stengel on Art
- Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
- Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
- Peter Hammill on Art
- Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Art
- Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
- Marshall McLuhan on Art
- Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
- William Bernbach on Art
- Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers on Art
- Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
- Marshall McLuhan on Art
- Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
- Remy De Gourmont on Art
- After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
- David Sedaris on Art
- After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
- Robert Morgan on Art
- All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Art
- All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
- Walter Pater on Art
- All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
- Federico Fellini on Art
- All art is but imitation of nature.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Art
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