Art Quotes
“I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.”
“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.”
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
“I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.”
-- David Rockefeller
“It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.”
-- Henry Moore
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
-- Albert Einstein
“I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.”
-- Jerry Saltz