Art Quotes
“I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.”
“I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.”
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.”
-- Auguste Rodin
“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.”
-- Drew Barrymore
“It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.”
-- Robert Browning
“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.”
-- Jerry Saltz