The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat.
Virginia Postrel
With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to... →
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
Dennis Potter
It's an interesting and demanding art to do voices. I have been told so many times that I have a distinctive voice, but of course, I don't... →
Annie Potts
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Ezra Pound
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part... →
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean... →