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

“Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.”

-- Ben Okri

“Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.”

-- Henri Matisse

“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.”

-- Jackson Pollock

“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.”

-- Christian Bale

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

-- Pablo Picasso

“Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.”

-- Sylvia Plath