3 December 2020 Walter Benjamin The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I’m in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.
3 December 2020 Quentin Tarantino I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that’s becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
3 December 2020 Lou Reed How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
3 December 2020 Paulo Coelho We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
3 December 2020 Jean Anouilh Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It’s the aim of art to give it some.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren’t necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence I can’t bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
3 December 2020 Sylvester Stallone I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
3 December 2020 Toni Morrison Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
3 December 2020 Damien Hirst In an artwork you’re always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.
