:"...once again an art is dying because of the times
that betrayed it...Critically it could be proven,
though, that Expressionism is choking on the carcass
of the same revolution whose motherly Pythia it wanted
to be."
(German Expressionism..)
"Generally speaking, art is an expression of man's
need for a harmonious and complete life, that is to
say, his need for those major benefits of which a
society of classes has deprived him...Every new
tendency in art has begun with rebellion."
--Leon Trotsky
"Art & Revolution"
"When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you
become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a
monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I became a
painter and wound up as Picasso."
--Pablo Picasso
"Anything is art if an artist says it is."
--Marcel Duchamp
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think
an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
--Orson Welles
Another unsettling element in modern art is that
common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what
has been done before.
--Edith Warton
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of
feeling the artist has experienced.
--Leo Tolstoy
My first thought about art, as a child was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy.
--John Updike
"The Writer's Chapbook"
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
--Oscar Wilde
Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.
--Amedee Ozenfant
"Foundations of Modern Art"
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
--Stella Adler
