3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.
3 December 2020 Harvey Fierstein Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
3 December 2020 George Santayana It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
3 December 2020 Alberto Giacometti In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist’s obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
3 December 2020 Joseph Gordon-Levitt To be honest, I sort of feel like ‘movie actor’ isn’t of this time. I love it. But it’s a 20th-century art form.
3 December 2020 John Tillotson The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.
3 December 2020 Marvin Hagler Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you’re paying attention and studying your art.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
3 December 2020 Arthur Koestler The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
3 December 2020 Joseph Gordon-Levitt Celebrity doesn’t have anything to do with art or craft. It’s about being rich and thinking that you’re better than everybody else.
3 December 2020 Agnes Martin When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
3 December 2020 Andy Warhol I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
3 December 2020 Aristotle The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
3 December 2020 Elia Kazan The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don’t dare reveal.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz I don’t know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I’ve gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
3 December 2020 Emily Carr I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
