Art Quotes
“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.”
“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
-- Jean Cocteau
“The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.”
-- Henry Moore
“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
-- Anatole France