3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
3 December 2020 Edward Tufte The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
3 December 2020 Barbra Streisand I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
3 December 2020 Paddy Chayefsky Artists don’t talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it’s stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Safran Foer Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven’t.
3 December 2020 David Hockney Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.
3 December 2020 David Bailey Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
3 December 2020 Knut Hamsun You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.
3 December 2020 Alfred North Whitehead Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
3 December 2020 Henry Miller An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
3 December 2020 Nick Cave I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Artschwager’s art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you’re looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don’t know what we’re seeing, we overreact.
3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
3 December 2020 Helen Rowland Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
