Art Quotes
“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.”
“You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.”
-- Knut Hamsun
“As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.”
-- Thomas Guthrie
“But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.”
-- Wole Soyinka
“In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”
-- Georg Cantor