Art Quotes

“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.”

-- Ray Bradbury

“First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.”

-- Ambrose Bierce

“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”

-- Arthur Erickson

“I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.”

-- Brian Eno

“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”

-- Anish Kapoor

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”

-- Groucho Marx

“I paint with shapes.”

-- Alexander Calder

“There is nothing new in art except talent.”

-- Anton Chekhov

“I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.”

-- Jim Morrison