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

“Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.”

-- Alvar Aalto

“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”

-- Robert Rauschenberg

“How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?”

-- Lou Reed

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”

-- Don Marquis

“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”

-- Christopher Marlowe

“I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.”

-- William Morris

“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”

-- Walter Winchell

“Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”

-- Marshall McLuhan

“I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”

-- Marshall McLuhan