3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.
3 December 2020 Judy Chicago I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city’s magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
3 December 2020 Garry Kasparov I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I’m a flesh-eating virus.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
3 December 2020 Anthony Kiedis I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
3 December 2020 John Lasseter The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz The art world is molting – some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.
3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
3 December 2020 Henry Hazlitt The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
3 December 2020 Harold Coffin Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.
3 December 2020 David Hockney What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
3 December 2020 Marc Chagall In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
