Art Quotes
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
“Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.”
-- Robert Morgan
“In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.”
-- Damien Hirst
“Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.”
-- Walter Murch
“Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.”
-- Marshall McLuhan
“My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.”
-- Jennifer Garner