Art Quotes
“My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.”
“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.”
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
“I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.”
-- David Rockefeller
“It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.”
-- Henry Moore
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
-- Albert Einstein
“I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.”
-- Jerry Saltz