Art Quotes

“Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.”

-- Salvador Dali

“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.”

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.”

-- Eric Hoffer

“The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.”

-- Aldous Huxley

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

-- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.”

-- Catherine Deneuve

“The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.”

-- Pablo Casals

“Art is the proper task of life.”

-- Friedrich Nietzsche