Art Quotes
“I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.”
“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