Art Quotes
“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
“Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.”
-- Jonathan Swift
“It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.”
-- Sydney Pollack
“Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.”
-- Alanis Morissette