Art Quotes
“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.”
“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.”
-- E. M. Forster
“Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.”
-- Louis Kahn
“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
-- John Keats