Art Quotes
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
“It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.”
-- Tom Stoppard
“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
“To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.”
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.”
-- Ellie Goulding
“Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.”
-- Jerry Saltz