Art Quotes
“To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.”
“What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.”
-- Oscar Wilde
“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.”
-- William Morris
“The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.”
-- E. M. Forster
“There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.”
-- Steve Martin