Art Quotes
“I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.”
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
-- Gustave Flaubert
“Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.”
-- Andre Gide
“For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.”
-- Vidal Sassoon
“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
“In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.”
-- Blaise Pascal