Art Quotes
“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.”
“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”
-- Gertrude Stein
“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.”
-- Jerry Saltz