Quotes About Art

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Then, the stunningly white cubes that make up the Getty Museum. It's an architectural masterpiece funded by a venal billionaire's trust, housing third-rate art. Pure L.A.: might makes right and packaging is all. Traffic

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179)

Interrogation...was the highest art of the inquisitor.

VIVA LA VIE BOHEME!

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

I never go to the theatre. I'm just not interested in going to it. I'm interested only in doing it.

I can't divorce Kent and his art from what causes pain in Kent's life. This is true in the lives of many individuals labeled ADHD. Their greatest gifts are interwoven with their greatest weaknesses. This might be true for all of us. But we can make something beautiful from this paradox. Our lives can sometimes be a sort of poem—part genetics, part individual adaptation.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

reminded him of Paul Cézanne's words about seeing in nature the cone, sphere, and cylinder, words that Picasso and Braque, even his old friend Max

Now there's a good course title, 'The Mystery in Art History.' It even rhymes.

took in the unfinished paintings. Strong and colorful, filled with promise and an inner logic that helps lift them above ordinary abstractions, so said the New York Times four years ago, the time of my last exhibition. So what had happened to all that promise?

According to INTERPOL's statistics, art theft alternated between the agency's number three and four spots in priority and importance, just below drug dealing, arms smuggling, and money laundering.

Chaudron knew his forgeries would be examined under a microscope and the latest infrared X-ray. This hidden imagery would make it appear that each forgery was indeed authentic.

Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.

Those statues were exquisitely carved, without exception; that was what the Egyptians were really good at, along with organized religion and civil engineering.

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.