3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades – even if it’s now close to aesthetic kudzu.
3 December 2020 Alfred de Vigny Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
3 December 2020 Anatole France What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
3 December 2020 Louis Kahn Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
3 December 2020 Rainer Maria Rilke Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
3 December 2020 John Lennon If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
3 December 2020 Jon Bon Jovi Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn’t want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Wolfgang Tillman’s stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.
3 December 2020 Duke Ellington Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Many say an art dealer running a museum is a ‘conflict of interest.’ But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
3 December 2020 Socrates Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
