Art Quotes
“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.”
“Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.”
-- Charles Baudelaire
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”
-- Max Eastman
“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
-- Vincent Van Gogh
“To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.”
-- Charles Baudelaire