Art Quotes
“Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.”
“It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.”
-- Henry Louis Gates
“Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.”
-- Ambrose Bierce
“After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.”
-- David Sedaris
“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
-- Aristotle
“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.”
-- Paul Valery
“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
-- Walter Benjamin