Art Quotes - random
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made.
The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art.
What is art but the denial of life?
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.
..poor art for poor people (critic on social realism art)
Art can never exist without Naked Beauty displayed.
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art.
My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two)
Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.