Art Quotes
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
“A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.”
-- Jean Cocteau
“I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.”
-- Camillo di Cavour