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.”
“It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
-- Andy Warhol
“Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?”
-- Paul Cezanne
“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.”
-- Michel Foucault