Art Quotes
“Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.”
“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.”
-- Camille Paglia
“Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.”
-- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.”
-- Simone Weil
“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”
-- Saint Augustine