A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
Art Quotes
(An art article by Thomas Hoving) starts with a common apologia for modernist drips and splatters: “All art’s abstract.” With this statement he attempts to confer authenticity on talentless charlatans like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, as if their splotches and splatters could somehow reasonably be compared to Rembrandt, David, Ingres or Bouguereau. If you […]
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through.
I do not say therefore that the art is greatest which gives most pleasure, because perhaps there is some art whose end it is to teach and not to please. I do not say the art is greatest which teaches the most, because there is some art whose end it is to please and not […]
When he (W. B. Yeats) sat for me he wore a velvet coat and a huge loose bow tie and a big lock of hair fell across his brow. He told me that he did these things to remind himself of his own importance as an artist! “Why,” quietly interrupted Fox, “didn’t he tie a […]
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
