Art Quotes
“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
“Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.”
-- Charles Baudelaire
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”
-- Max Eastman
“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
-- Vincent Van Gogh
“To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.”
-- Charles Baudelaire