Art Quotes
“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.”
“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