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.”
“I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.”
-- Walt Disney
“People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.”
-- Carmen Electra
“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
-- James Joyce
“I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.”
-- Marilyn Manson
“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
-- Leo Tolstoy