Art Quotes
“Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.”
“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