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

“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.”

-- Francis Bacon

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.”

-- Tadao Ando

“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”

-- Ernst Fischer

“Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.”

-- Peter De Vries

“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.”

-- Henri Matisse

“Art is anything you can get away with.”

-- Marshall McLuhan

“The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.”

-- John Ruskin