Art Quotes
“'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.”
“Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?”
-- David Hockney
“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.”
-- Edward Hopper
“We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.”
-- Salvador Dali
“Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.”
-- Jerry Saltz