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.”
“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
“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
“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