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.”

-- Jane Campion

“The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.”

-- George Santayana

“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.”

-- Harold Coffin

“I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.”

-- David Herbert Lawrence

“Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.”

-- Thomas Edward Brown

“There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.”

-- Gustave Flaubert

“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”

-- Twyla Tharp

“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”

-- Miguel de Cervantes

“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”

-- W. Somerset Maugham

“I love to collect modern art.”

-- Maria Sharapova