Art Quotes
“It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.”
“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.”
-- Claude Monet
“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”
-- Al Capp