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.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”

-- Albert Camus

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.”

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

“Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.”

-- William Shatner

“More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.”

-- Billy Joel

“There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.”

-- William Osler

“When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.”

-- Marcus Aurelius

“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.”

-- Charles Baudelaire

“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”

-- Igor Stravinsky

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”

-- Robert Schumann