Art Quotes
“Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.”
“There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.”
-- Jim Davis
“Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”
-- George Santayana
“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche