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.”
“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.”
-- Horace
“In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.”
-- Edward Hopper
“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.”
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer
“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”
-- John Ruskin