Art Quotes - random
The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist.
Ideas worth questioning: "Being an artist is a job for life."
One of the most engaging artists to emerge from Great Britain in the last decade. ~ Art in America
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
"The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay."
Why art thou silent and invisible,
Father of Jealousy?
A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.
"Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens."
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.
Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
Art is man added to Nature Descriptio Globi Intellectus (1612).
If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream,
And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.