3 December 2020 Shirley MacLaine I’d like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I’ve admired him for 35 years. He’s someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I’m actually sleeping with him.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art’s wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.
3 December 2020 Martha Beck Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Not to say people shouldn’t get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
3 December 2020 Anatole France The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
3 December 2020 Steve Martin You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
3 December 2020 Amy Lowell Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
3 December 2020 Elliott Erwitt To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz The reason the art world doesn’t respond to Kinkade is because none – not one – of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They’re all cliche and already told.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
3 December 2020 Steve Martin I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.
3 December 2020 George Jean Nathan Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
