Art Quotes
“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.”
“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.”
-- George Jean Nathan
“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.”
-- Patti Smith
“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.”
-- Charles de Lint
“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.”
-- Alexander Calder