Art Quotes
“My trade and art is to live.”
“Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
-- Andre Gide
“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
“The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.”
-- Edward Hopper
“When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.”
-- Jerry Saltz