Art Quotes
“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”
“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