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.”
“Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.”
-- Alvar Aalto
“How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?”
-- Lou Reed
“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”
-- Christopher Marlowe
“I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.”
-- William Morris
“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”
-- Walter Winchell