Art Quotes
“It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.”
“Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.”
-- Charles Baudelaire
“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
-- Honore de Balzac
“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.”
-- Edward Tufte
“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.”
-- Maya Lin