Art Quotes
“Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.”
“Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.”
-- Brad Holland
“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.”
-- Ludwig Erhard
“The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“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