Art Quotes
“The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.”
“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.”
-- William Hazlitt
“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
-- Honore de Balzac
“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”
-- Thomas Huxley
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
-- Henry James