If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he’s really needed.
Art Quotes
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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.
