Art Quotes
“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
“It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
-- Andy Warhol
“Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?”
-- Paul Cezanne
“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.”
-- Michel Foucault