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.”

-- Maurice Sendak

“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.”

-- Hippocrates

“The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

-- Thomas Merton

“Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.”

-- Victor Hugo

“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”

-- Thomas Browne

“The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?”

-- David Foster Wallace

“Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.”

-- Dante Alighieri

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson