Art Quotes
“Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.”
“To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.”
-- Morihei Ueshiba
“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”
-- Aldous Huxley
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
-- Pablo Picasso
“'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.”
-- Rabindranath Tagore
“You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.”
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox