3 December 2020 Camille Paglia In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
3 December 2020 Rebecca West Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
3 December 2020 Edward Koch Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks.
3 December 2020 William Shatner Writing is truly a creative art – putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
3 December 2020 Alvar Aalto Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn’t make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
3 December 2020 Leo Burnett If you don’t get noticed, you don’t have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.
3 December 2020 Thomas Mann An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.
3 December 2020 E. M. Forster The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
3 December 2020 Edward Steichen When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
3 December 2020 Salvador Dali Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
3 December 2020 James Joyce Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
3 December 2020 Paul Klee The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we’re not pure enough, good omens appear.
