Art Quotes
“Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.”
“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