Art Quotes
“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.”
“It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
-- Andy Warhol
“Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?”
-- Paul Cezanne
“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.”
-- Michel Foucault