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.”
“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.”
-- Camille Paglia
“Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.”
-- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.”
-- Simone Weil
“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”
-- Saint Augustine