Art Quotes
“What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.”
“A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.”
-- Jean Cocteau
“I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.”
-- Camillo di Cavour