Art Quotes
“These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.”
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
-- Gustave Flaubert
“Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.”
-- Andre Gide
“For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.”
-- Vidal Sassoon
“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
“In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.”
-- Blaise Pascal