Art Quotes
“When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.”
“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.”
-- E. M. Forster
“Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.”
-- Louis Kahn
“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
-- John Keats