Art Quotes
“A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.”
“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