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.”
“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”
-- Elia Kazan
“It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.”
-- Havelock Ellis
“Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.”
-- Dave Barry
“It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.”
-- Robert Redford
“It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.”
-- John Ruskin