3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
3 December 2020 Arsene Wenger Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when it’s well done does it become an art.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
3 December 2020 Alan Rickman If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
3 December 2020 Tom Stoppard It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it it’s a sculpture.
3 December 2020 Ella Wheeler Wilcox With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time’s malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
3 December 2020 David Hockney Shadows sometimes people don’t see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses.
3 December 2020 Walter Benjamin The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz There’s something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
3 December 2020 Frederic Chopin Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
3 December 2020 Charles de Lint Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
