Art Quotes
“First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.”
“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