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

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”

-- Albert Camus

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.”

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

“Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.”

-- William Shatner

“More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.”

-- Billy Joel

“There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.”

-- William Osler

“When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.”

-- Marcus Aurelius

“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.”

-- Charles Baudelaire

“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”

-- Igor Stravinsky

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”

-- Robert Schumann