art Quotes

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.