Any great work of art… revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world – the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Art Quotes
Art should extend beyond itself to become an act of ethical reform, influencing public opinion, public action, and public contribution.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he’s in business.
By the time the child can draw more than scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons […]
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
Art is choice.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame.
Art, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as “One day a wag – what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god’s name! . . .”
