3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
3 December 2020 Daniel Radcliffe The art world can be very intimidating because it’s just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you’re never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there’s pressure to.
3 December 2020 Andy Warhol An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.
3 December 2020 Jack White It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
3 December 2020 Madeleine L'Engle When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Manson I think art is the only thing that’s spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people’s interpretations of God. I don’t think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
3 December 2020 Auguste Rodin The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
3 December 2020 Christina Aguilera I don’t think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I’ve ever seen them before.
3 December 2020 Walter Winchell Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
3 December 2020 John Ciardi Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
