Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. – Rebecca West
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. – Joseph Conrad
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. – Clive Bell
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. – Dave Barry
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love – to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved. – Isadora Duncan
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. – William Bernbach
Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. – Paracelsus
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. – Mary Baker Eddy
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die. – William Morris
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. – Jerry Saltz
The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor. – Jerry Saltz
All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places. – Jerry Saltz
When art wins, everyone wins. – Jerry Saltz
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. – Jerry Saltz
Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe. – Jerry Saltz
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. – Jerry Saltz
Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art. – Jerry Saltz
The art world is molting – some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back. – Jerry Saltz
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness. – Jerry Saltz
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. – Jerry Saltz
