3 December 2020 Walt Disney I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
3 December 2020 Edward Steichen Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.
3 December 2020 Laurie Anderson I’ve never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn’t made money with it.
3 December 2020 E. M. Forster To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
3 December 2020 Franz Marc Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
3 December 2020 Robert Morgan Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It’s delightful to distort size, to see something that’s tiny as though it were vast.
3 December 2020 Tony Blair The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
3 December 2020 Leslie Fiedler All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn’t read it the way you read history or science.
3 December 2020 Lewis Mumford Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
3 December 2020 Clive Bell A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
3 December 2020 Paul Klee The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
3 December 2020 Alvar Aalto Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.’
3 December 2020 Sri Chinmoy If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.
3 December 2020 Glenn Hughes Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.
3 December 2020 Ezra Pound It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
3 December 2020 Henry Moore It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
