3 December 2020 Andy Warhol I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.
3 December 2020 Peter Hammill Actually I think Art lies in both directions – the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
3 December 2020 Nicolaus Copernicus Although all the good arts serve to draw man’s mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
3 December 2020 Charles Horton Cooley Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
3 December 2020 Herman Hesse Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
3 December 2020 James Wolcott Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.
3 December 2020 George Santayana The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
3 December 2020 Damien Hirst I always feel like the art’s there and I just see it, so it’s not really a lot of work.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
3 December 2020 Anais Nin If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
3 December 2020 Martha Graham The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
3 December 2020 Groucho Marx Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz We’re all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We’re also allowed to change or modify our opinions.
