Art Quotes

“Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.”

-- Camille Paglia

“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.”

-- Francis Bacon

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.”

-- Tadao Ando

“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”

-- Ernst Fischer

“Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.”

-- Peter De Vries

“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.”

-- Henri Matisse

“Art is anything you can get away with.”

-- Marshall McLuhan

“The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.”

-- John Ruskin