Art Quotes
“Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'”
“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”
-- Elia Kazan
“It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.”
-- Havelock Ellis
“Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.”
-- Dave Barry
“It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.”
-- Robert Redford
“It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.”
-- John Ruskin