Art Quotes
“Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).”
“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.”
-- Horace
“In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.”
-- Edward Hopper
“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.”
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer
“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”
-- John Ruskin