3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art’s version of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. It’s the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
3 December 2020 Ludwig van Beethoven Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino’s work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.
3 December 2020 Arthur Balfour He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
3 December 2020 Billie Joe Armstrong I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
3 December 2020 Anais Nin It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
3 December 2020 Charlie Sheen We’re going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I’m going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it’s worth a fortune. I’ll make this a work of magic warlock art.
3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb – where the word art never came up – to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
3 December 2020 Joseph Beuys Let’s talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included… something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It’s a Gigantic project.
3 December 2020 Camillo di Cavour I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Contrary to popular opinion, things don’t go stale particularly fast in the art world.
3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
3 December 2020 Mikhail Baryshnikov I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
3 December 2020 Paul Getty My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
3 December 2020 Malcolm Muggeridge Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.
