Art Quotes
“Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.”
“Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.”
-- Charles Baudelaire
“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
-- Honore de Balzac
“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.”
-- Edward Tufte
“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.”
-- Maya Lin