Art Quotes
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
-- Oscar Wilde
“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.”
-- Lady Gaga
“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
“The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.”
-- Garry Kasparov
“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”
-- Andre Gide
“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.”
-- Sun Tzu
“Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.”
-- Jim Davis
“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
“There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
“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
“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche