Art Quotes
“Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.”
“Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?”
-- David Hockney
“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.”
-- Edward Hopper
“We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.”
-- Salvador Dali
“Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.”
-- Jerry Saltz