Art Quotes
“Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.”
“I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.”
-- David Rockefeller
“The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.”
-- Golda Meir
“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”
-- Elbert Hubbard
“Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.”
-- Paracelsus
“There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.”
-- Michelangelo
“In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.”
-- Terry Pratchett