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 artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”

-- Novalis

“The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.”

-- John Wooden

“It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.”

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.”

-- Eugene Ionesco

“When you create art, the world has to wait.”

-- Will Smith

“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”

-- Theodor Adorno

“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”

-- Gustave Flaubert

“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”

-- Rebecca West