Art Quotes
“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.”
“You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.”
-- Knut Hamsun
“As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.”
-- Thomas Guthrie
“But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.”
-- Wole Soyinka
“In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”
-- Georg Cantor