Art Quotes
“I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.”
“Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.”
-- Horace Walpole
“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”
-- Walter Hagen
“The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.”
-- Emmet Fox
“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”
-- Vladimir Nabokov
“One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.”
-- Thom Yorke