3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
3 December 2020 Rita Mae Brown Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
3 December 2020 Jean-Michel Basquiat I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.
3 December 2020 Robert Browning Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
3 December 2020 Hendrik Willem Van Loon The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
3 December 2020 Steve Martin There’s a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There’s a lot of sex, you know, in art. There’s a lot of naked women and men, and there’s intrigue, there’s fakery. It’s a real microcosm of the larger world.
3 December 2020 W. H. Auden What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
3 December 2020 Walter Murch Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
3 December 2020 Morihei Ueshiba One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
3 December 2020 Andre Maurois Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
3 December 2020 Al Capp Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I’ve been pursuing all my life.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
3 December 2020 Henry Rollins Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
3 December 2020 Federico Fellini All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
