Art Quotes
“Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.”
“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
-- Jean Cocteau
“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”
-- Marc Chagall
“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”
-- George Santayana
“Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.”
-- Camille Paglia
“Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.”
-- David Herbert Lawrence
“All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.”
-- Leslie Fiedler