Art Quotes

“A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.”

-- Norman McLaren

“By the work one knows the workman.”

-- Jean de La Fontaine

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”

-- Frank Zappa

“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”

-- Andy Warhol

“Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.”

-- Martin Scorsese

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”

-- Anatole France

“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.”

-- Hedy Lamarr

“One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.”

-- Brian Eno

“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”

-- Christo