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 business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”
-- David Herbert Lawrence
“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.”
-- Carl Rogers
“Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.”
-- David Bailey
“I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.”
-- Shia LaBeouf