Art Quotes
“Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.”
“Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.”
-- Charles Baudelaire
“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
-- Honore de Balzac
“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.”
-- Edward Tufte
“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.”
-- Maya Lin