In no country in the world will you find so many reproductions of the Old Masters and of well-known paintings on parlor walls as in these United States. No country has anything like our number of phonographs, with not only dance records and comic but also the best operas, such as Verdi, rendered by the […]
Art Quotes
Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And East is East and West is West and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh… now you tell me what you know.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color.
Art can stir up trouble; art can fight trouble; art is a vice for some and a virtue for others. The artist whose work does not embarrass someone occasionally is no more effective than the coward who looks the other way while a victim cries for help. Try to make every work have some quality […]
Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting.
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: “It’s clever, but is it Art?”
