Art Quotes
“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”
“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.”
-- George Jean Nathan
“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.”
-- Patti Smith
“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.”
-- Charles de Lint
“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.”
-- Alexander Calder