Copyright 1985-2008 MCR Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. www.quotations.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 ART Page 18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Essence 120 What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. Willa Cather (1873-1947) The Song of the Lark, IV 121 Art is energy shaped by intelligence. Gore Vidal (b. 1925) Matters of Fact and Fiction 122 The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Michelangelo (1474-1564) 123 Art is a half effaced recollection of a higher state from which we have fallen since the time of Eden. Saint Hildegarde (1098-1179) 124 All art is a revolt against man's fate. Andre Malraux (1901-1976) Voices of Silence 125 Art is the triumph over chaos. John Cheever (1912-1982) The Stories of John Cheever 126 Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling. Suzanne Langer (1895-1985) Feeling and Form 127 Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. Amy Lowell (1874-1925) 128 A work of art is part of nature seen through a temperament. Andre Gide (1869-1951) Protests ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 ART Page 19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 129 Great art picks up where nature ends. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Time Magazine 130 Art is Power. Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) Hyperion 131 Art is not a thing; it is a way. Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915) 132 Art is the signature of civilization. Beverly Sills (b. 1929) NBC TV '85 133 Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animate. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) 134 The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited. William Saroyan (1908-1981) NY Times '83 135 Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk. Paul Klee (1879-1940) 2. Opposites 136 The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle (B.C. 384-322) 137 Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) Hyperion, Bk. xi, sec. 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 ART Page 20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 138 The perfection of art is to conceal art. Quintilian (35-90 A.D.) 139 Of all lies, art is the least untrue. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) 140 Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Quote 21 Sep 58 141 We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda, it is a form of truth. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) 142 Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damn liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) 143 Anything can make us look, only art can make us see. Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) Poetry and Experience 144 Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. Paul Klee (1879-1940) Creative Credo, sec. 1, The Inward Vision 145 A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it. Simone Weil (1909-1943) Gravity and Grace 146 Life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that it was not all once contained in some youthful body. Willa Cather (1873-1947) The Song of the Lark I. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 ART Page 21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 147 Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough. Pauline Kael (b. 1919) 148 The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both. Ben Hecht (1894-1964) 149 I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. Robert Henri (1865-1929) 150 ...the fairest, alas bygone, days of art when a prince stood as a protector before an artist, showing the rabble that art, a matter for princes, is beyond the judgement of common people. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Leter to Prince von Furstenberg 151 The learned understand the theory of art, the unlearned its pleasure. Quintilian (35-90 A.D.) De Institutione Oratoria 152 Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. Suzanne Langer (1895-1985) Mind, An Essay on Human Feeling 153 A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) Strong Opinions 154 Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) 155 Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 ART Page 22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 156 The function of art is to disturb. Science reassures. Georges Braque (1882-1963) Cahier 157 Classic art was the art of necessity; modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) 158 Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Tom Stoppard (b. 1937) Artist Descending a Staircase, BBC Radio. 1972 159 Art is a passion or it is nothing. Roger Eliot Fry (1866-1934) Vision and Design 160 Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is the place of expectation. Johann W. von Goethe (1749-1832) Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship 161 Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produced impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) 3. Insight 162 Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art. Lord Kenneth Clark (1903-1983) The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 ART Page 23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 163 The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses. Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881) Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. Art and Life. 164 Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) Dialogues 165 ...art is a means of communication by which mind reaches out to mind across great gaps of space and time, as well as across death. Francis Hoyland A Painter's Diary 166 The first contact with a great work of art is...comparable to meeting the person who is going to play an important role in your life. Wanda Landowska (1879-1959) Landowska on Music 167 The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) Seven Men 168 The vitality of a new movement in art or letters can be pretty accurately gauged by the fury it arouses. Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) All Trivia 169 Our feeling for a work of art is rarely independent of the place it occupies in art history. Andre Malraux (1901-1976) The Voices of Silence ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 ART Page 24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 170 There is nothing but art. Art is living. To attempt to give an object of art life by dwelling on its historical, cultural, or archaeological associations is senseless. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) The Summing Up 171 All art is a revolt against man's fate. Andre Malraux (1901-1976) 172 In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the art of real creation, not in criticism or commentary. Albert Camus (1913-1960) The Rebel 173 The societies most deeply tainted with superstition have been the greatest promoters of art. Georges Bizet (1838-1875) Letter, 1866 174 Art and life are not two different things. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Letter 175 Only that art can live which is an active manifestation of the life of the people. It must be a necessary and essential portion of that life, and not a luxury. Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) Man and Music 176 Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food. Irving Stone (1903-1989) 177 A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions (though those are its raw materials), but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) Letters ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 ART Page 25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 178 Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) 179 Every production must resemble its author. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) 180 All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. Frederico Fellini (1920-1993) 181 To express that which is within you with sincerity, in the clearest and most perfect manner, would seem to me always the ultimate goal of art. Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) Letter to Mme de Chaumont-Quitry 182 The sole purpose of the arts is neither description nor imitation, but the creation of unknown beings from elements which are always present but not apparent. Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918) Quoted by Hamilton and Agee, "Raymond Duchamp-Villon" 183 I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. Emily Carr (1871-1945) 184 The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being. Mervin Levy (1915-1996) Painting for All 185 Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) Dialogues ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 ART Page 26 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 186 Every real creation of art is independent, more powerful than the artist himself and returns to the divine through its manifestation. It is one with man only in this, that it bears testimony to the mediation of the divine in him. Beethoven (1770-1827) Letter to Goethe, 1810 187 Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide (1869-1951) 188 The course of Nature is the art of God. Edward Young (1683-1765) 189 Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.) Meditations, Bk, xi, sec, 10 190 What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature. Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) to Joachim Gasquet in 1897 191 The divine inspiration of music, poetry, and painting do not arrive at perfection by degrees, like the other sciences, but by starts, and by flashes of lightning, once here, another there, appear in various lands, then suddenly vanish. Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) Dedication to Livre des melanges 192 The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion. Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 ART Page 27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 193 Even the most brilliant scientific discoveries will in time change and perhaps grow obsolete, as new scientific manifestations emerge. But Art is eternal; for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man. Martha Graham (1895-1991) 194 All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage. Walter Pater (1839-1894) Appreciations, "Style" 195 Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. Paul Klee (1879-1940) Creative Credo 196 Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. Marshall McLuhan (b. 1911) 197 Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words... By means of art we are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason. Alexandr I. Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918) 198 Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and, second, it must be inimitable. Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) interview with Walter Pach, Scribner's Magazine, May 1912 199 Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. Jean Cocteau (1891-1963) quoted New York Times, Sept. 8, 1957 200 What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) Reminiscences ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 ART Page 28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 201 Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about. James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) Ten O'Clock Lecture 202 In art, there are tears that do lie too deep for thought. Louis Kronenberger (1904-1980) 203 To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) 204 Art among a religious race produce relics; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade. Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) 205 If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying Bismarck's policy? No. He studies a single blade of grass. Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) 4. Positive 206 Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) 207 It is through ... Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence. Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) Quoted in "Art & Artist's Quotation Book" by Helen Hale 208 Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential. Saul Bellow (b. 1915) Nobel Prize speech '70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 ART Page 29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 209 Art completes what nature cannot bring to a finish. Aristotle (B.C. 384-322) 210 It is not in life but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. George Woodcock (1912-1995) 211 Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning. Jacques Barzun (b. 1907) 212 Great art is produced by men who feel acutely and nobly; and it is in some sort an expression of this personal feeling. John Ruskin (1819-1900) Modern Painters III.iv 213 Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. Walter Pater (1839-1894) The Renaissance 214 Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936) 215 The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Ends and Means XII 216 Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others. Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) A Preface to Politics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 ART Page 30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 217 Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) Maxims 218 Works of art are all that survive of incredibly gifted people. Peter C. Wilson London Illustrated News 219 Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) Within a Budding Grove 220 A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable. But that they shall give pleasure and exert a charm over us is indispensable too; and this strangeness must be sweet also - a lively strangeness. Walter Pater (1839-1894) The Renaissance 221 When art...becomes an expression of a philosophy of life, it is no longer a luxury ... It is a storm that carries one away, unites all men in a unit of solidarity, shakes them to the bottom of their souls, waking them to the greatest problems of their common destiny. Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) quoted in Ewen, American Composers 222 It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Thoreau (1817-1862) "Where I Live" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 ART Page 31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 223 Art and Religion are two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Clive Bell (1885-1964) Art 224 Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truths, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. Yeats (1865-1939) 225 For me that is the definition of a great work - a landscape painted so well that the artist disappears in it. Pierre Boulez (b. 1925) quoted in Peyser, Boulez 226 There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating. Frederick Delius (1862-1934) quoted in Fenby, "Delius as I Knew Him." 227 Life is serious, but art is fun. John Irving (b. 1942) The Hotel New Hampshire 228 Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Themes and Variations 5. Negative 229 Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) 230 To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 ART Page 32 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 231 To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions. Melvin Maddocks Christian Science Monitor '85 232 All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area. Alexander Liberman (1912-1999) NY Times, 13 May 1979 233 Writers write for themselves and not for their readers. Art has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. Rebecca West (b. 1892) Vogue, Nov 1, 1952 "The Art of Skepticism" 234 Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) 235 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) 236 I mistrust violence in almost any art. It is often an easy way out. It's much more difficult to draw a beautiful face than an ugly one. Quentin Bell (b. 1910) Observer Magazine 237 All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) Quoted in "Art & Artist's Quotation Book" by Helen Hale 238 Art is meant to disturb. Georges Braque (1882-1963) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 ART Page 33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 239 Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) House of Satan 240 One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Nietzsche (1844-1900) Thus spake Zarathustra 241 No art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and study; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament, I know nothing. Edgar Degas (1834-1917) 242 The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) Heretics, 1905 243 Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) The Writing of Fiction, 1925 244 Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) To Royal Academy of Arts 245 There is nothing new in art except talent. Anton Checkhov (1860-1904) 246 Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp (1909-1979) National Observer Magazine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 ART Page 34 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 247 There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) 248 Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. George Santayana (1863-1952) Life of Reason IV 249 Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea. John Ciardi (1916-1986) 250 Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art. Clive Bell (1885-1964) Art 251 Art hath an enemy called Ignorance. Ben Jonson (1572-1637) 252 To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) 253 I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive in its pursuit is money. Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886) 254 The people who make art their business are mostly impostors. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) 255 It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such does not 'pay'... and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap. Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) Music in America ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 ART Page 35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 256 It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity. Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) 257 One thing is certain: you cannot persuade anyone with art. It is like beating an eiderdown with your fist, it merely bulges somewhere else. Leos Janacek (1854-1928) Letter to Kamila Stossel 258 There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences. Georges Vantongerloo (1866-1965) Paintings, Sculptures, Reflections 259 Art is delayed echo. George Santayana (1863-1952) The Nature of Art 260 It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) 261 Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. Andre Gide (1869-1951) 262 In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) 6. Advice 263 Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6 ART Page 36 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 264 Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares; evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness. Frederick E Hart (b. 1943) Reflections 265 Always buy the piece, never the story. Norbert Schimmel NY Times Magazine, '89 266 A great art collection is like a garden. A bit of pruning is necessary - though some blossoms fall. John Carter Brown (1797-1874) Washington Post Magazine 267 As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child. Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) 268 Practice an art for love and the happiness of your life - you will find it outlasts almost everything but breath. Katherine Anne Porter (b. 1890) NY Times '95 269 One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred time. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. Edgar Degas (1834-1917) 270 It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character. Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) letter to his son, Lucien; translated by Lionel Abel 1883 271 In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things. Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) catalogue, Wildenstein Galleries New York, 1926 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6 ART Page 37 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 272 Sketching is the "breath" of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath. Mervin Levy (1915-1996) Painting for All 273 The most important thing in a work of art is that it should have some kind of focus...there should be some place where all the rays meet, or from which they issue. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Quoted in "The Delights of Reading" by Otto L. Bettmann 274 The state is not competent in artistic matters.... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty. Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) from a letter to the Minister of Fine Arts 275 First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can. Denis Diderot (1713-1784) 7. Poetry & Prose 276 It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. 'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes. Homer (c. B.C. 700) Iliad (Pope's translation) 277 Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind degrade. Hire idiots to Paint with cold light and hot shade: Give high price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place. William Blake (1757-1828) Marginalia 278 In a dark time, the eye begins to see. Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) In a Dark Time ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7 ART Page 38 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 279 As all Nature's thousand changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands for aye in loveliness. Johann W. von Goethe (1749-1832) Wilhelm Meister's Travels 280 There be more things to greet the heart and eyes In Arno's dome of Art's most princely shrine, Where Sculpture with her rainbow sister vies; There be more marvels yet - but not for mine; For I have been accustom'd to entwine My thoughts with Nature rather in the fields, Than Art in galleries. Byron (1788-1824) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 281 Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude. Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) Keramos. L.382 282 In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed, To make some good, but others to exceed. Shakespeare (1564-1616) Pericles. Act II. Sc. 3 L.15. 283 The counterfeit and conterpart Of Nature reproduced in art. Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) Keramos 284 And I thought, like Dr. Faustus, all the emptiness of Art, How we take a fragment for the whole and call the whole a part. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Nux Postcoenatica, St 2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7 ART Page 39 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 285 It was the thaw! It was spring again! the press embraced Pop Art with priapic delight. That goddamned Abstract Expressionism had been so solemn, so grim... 'Shards of interpenetrated sensibility make their way, tentatively, through a not always compromisable field of cobalt blue-' How could you write about the freaking stuff? Pop Art you could have fun with. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) The Painted World, 1975 8. Jokes & Humor 286 Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses. Beaverbrook (1879-1964) 287 Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) 288 He is such a poor artist, the only thing he can draw properly is his bath. 289 Q: "What does an artist like to draw best?" A: "His salary." 290 Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Frank Zappa (b. 1940) 291 Gallery owner: Now this, Mr. Kingsley, is Paul Klee. In Klee you see everything one looks for in modern art; rapid capital growth, sound long-term prospects, and excellent relative liquidity. William Hamilton (1788-1856) William Hamilton's Anti-Social Register, cartoon, 1974 292 Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8 ART Page 40 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 293 Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. Peter De Vries (b. 1910) Madder Music 294 He always did have that 'touch of madness' that marks the true artist and breaks the hearts of the young girls from fine homes. Robert Crumb (b. 1943) Snoid Comics, 1980 295 ...at one point I found myself standing before an oil of a horse that I figured was probably a self-portrait judging from the general execution... Peter De Vries (b. 1910) Let Me Count the Ways, 1965