Art Quotes
“Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.”
“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
-- Jean Cocteau
“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”
-- Marc Chagall
“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”
-- George Santayana
“Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.”
-- Camille Paglia
“Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.”
-- David Herbert Lawrence
“All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.”
-- Leslie Fiedler