What is art? Nature concentrated. – Honore de Balzac
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Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise – all are now the norm, often edging out much else. – Jerry Saltz
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. – W. H. Auden
I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that its the governments role to provide everything. – Rick Warren
I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders. – Martin Mull
A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life
