Art Quotes
“The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.”
-- Aldous Huxley
“Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.”
-- Catherine Deneuve
“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
“To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.”
-- Arthur Conan Doyle
“When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.”
-- Agnes Martin
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
-- Aristotle
“While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“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
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
-- Scott Adams