Art Quotes
“What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.”
“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.”
-- William Hazlitt
“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
-- Honore de Balzac
“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”
-- Thomas Huxley
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
-- Henry James