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If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fuller
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
Roy Lichtenstein
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One
Oscar Wilde
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
Jerry Saltz
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Robert Alexander Schumann
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Paul Cezanne
Education is the art of making man ethical.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
Conrad Hall
We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
Charlie Sheen
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
David Herbert Lawrence
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
History develops, art stands still.
E. M. Forster
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.
