Art Quotes

“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

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

-- Michelangelo

“It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”

-- W. H. Auden

“To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.”

-- Henri Frederic Amiel

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”

-- Theodore Dreiser

“Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).”

-- Jerry Saltz

“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.”

-- David Hockney

“It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”

-- W. H. Auden

“In art the best is good enough.”

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”

-- Frank Lloyd Wright