Art Quotes
“When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.”
“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