Art Quotes

“There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.”

-- Steve Martin

“Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”

-- Andre Gide

“All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.”

-- Mason Cooley

“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”

-- Lord Byron

“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”

-- George Bernard Shaw

“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”

-- Guy Kawasaki

“The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.”

-- Edward Hopper

“When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.”

-- Thomas Hardy