Art Quotes
“There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.”
“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.”
-- George Jean Nathan
“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.”
-- Patti Smith
“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.”
-- Charles de Lint
“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.”
-- Alexander Calder