Art Quotes
“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.”
“Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?”
-- David Hockney
“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.”
-- Edward Hopper
“We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.”
-- Salvador Dali
“Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.”
-- Jerry Saltz