Art Quotes
“Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.”
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
-- Gustave Flaubert
“Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.”
-- Andre Gide
“For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.”
-- Vidal Sassoon
“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
“In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.”
-- Blaise Pascal