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.”
“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.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.”
-- Ambrose Bierce
“I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.”
-- Brian Eno