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 reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
-- Jean Cocteau
“The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.”
-- Henry Moore
“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
-- Anatole France