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.”
“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”
-- Elia Kazan
“It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.”
-- Havelock Ellis
“Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.”
-- Dave Barry
“It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.”
-- Robert Redford
“It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.”
-- John Ruskin