Art Quotes

“I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.”

-- Anthony Kiedis

“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”

-- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”

-- Oliver Herford

“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.”

-- Andre Gide

“It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.”

-- Eddie Vedder

“People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.”

-- Megan Fox

“Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.”

-- Camille Paglia

“All I owe the world is my art.”

-- Sherman Alexie

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

-- George Bernard Shaw