Art Quotes
“Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.”
“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.”
-- William Hazlitt
“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
-- Honore de Balzac
“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”
-- Thomas Huxley
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
-- Henry James