Art is to the community what the dream is to the individual.
Art Quotes
When this girl at the art museum asked me whom I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, “I like mayonnaise.” She just stared at me, so I said it again, louder. Then she left. I guess she went to try to find some mayonnaise for me.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Art consists in so depicting the common events of life as to bring out the features which illustrate the author’s idiosyncratic mode of regard.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
A sailor complained to Picasso that his paintings were not realistic, and then took out a tiny snapshot of his child for the painter to see. Picasso squinted seriously at the snapshot and handed it back to the father, merely saying, “Small, isn’t she?”
There is perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics. (Dame Edna)
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
