Art Quotes

“It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.”

-- Frank Wedekind

“Art is not a thing it is a way.”

-- Elbert Hubbard

“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

-- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Trying to force creativity is never good.”

-- Sarah McLachlan

“In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“I think about my work every minute of the day.”

-- Jeff Koons

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”

-- Jean Cocteau

“All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.”

-- John Ruskin

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”

-- Amy Lowell