Art Quotes
“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”
“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.”
-- E. M. Forster
“Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.”
-- Louis Kahn
“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
-- John Keats