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.”
“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.”
-- Camille Paglia
“Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.”
-- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.”
-- Simone Weil
“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”
-- Saint Augustine