3 December 2020 Rudyard Kipling And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ‘It’s pretty, but is it Art?’
3 December 2020 Denis Diderot When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man’s name live for thousands of years.
3 December 2020 Camille Paglia Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
3 December 2020 Max Beckmann Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement… for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
3 December 2020 Jim Morrison I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
3 December 2020 Katharine Hepburn I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He’s the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges I’m very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we’re all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
3 December 2020 Robert Indiana I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I’ve done many.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
3 December 2020 Oliver Herford Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
3 December 2020 Scott Adams Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
3 December 2020 Isaac Bashevis Singer The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
