-Charles Horton Cooley, Life and the Student 

  "When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!"
-Christian Cardell Corbet, 1997 

  "The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress."
-Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Arts 

  "Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is."
-Henri Matisse, Notebooks 

  "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
-Michelangelo 

  "Un croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours."
Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words."
-Napoleon 

  "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
-Friedrich Nietzsche 

  "All art is but imitation of nature."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

  "All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life."
-Oscar Wilde, "The Decay of Living", 1891 

Mimes do not make art. Mimes make filth.
-- Tom Stanis



Art is one of those things that shall always be subjective. There is no way to define it completely with leaving loopholes and causing conflict. Art is art.