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

“Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.”

-- Stendhal

“All art is but imitation of nature.”

-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

-- Pablo Picasso

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

-- Winston Churchill

“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”

-- H. L. Mencken

“I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.”

-- Maria Callas

“Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”

-- Albert Camus

“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”

-- William Wordsworth

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”

-- Marcus Aurelius