Art Quotes
“It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.”
“Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'”
-- Jef I. Richards
“Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
-- Benjamin Disraeli
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.”
-- Alexander Pope