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.”
“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.”
-- Lady Gaga
“Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.”
-- Joseph Beuys
“The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.”
-- Garry Kasparov
“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”
-- Andre Gide