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.”
“You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.”
-- Knut Hamsun
“As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.”
-- Thomas Guthrie
“But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.”
-- Wole Soyinka
“In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”
-- Georg Cantor