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.”

-- Camille Paglia

“Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'”

-- Jef I. Richards

“Art is the objectification of feeling.”

-- Herman Melville

“Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”

-- Benjamin Disraeli

“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”

-- Arne Jacobsen

“Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.”

-- Billy Idol

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.”

-- Alexander Pope

“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”

-- E. M. Forster

“Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.”

-- Martha Beck