To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. Simone Weil affordartfault Change image and share on social
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. Remy de Gourmont accompliceaestheticart Change image and share on social
With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art. Virginia Postrel 20thartcentral share on social
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. F. Scott Fitzgerald artcontemptgreat Change image and share on social
Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist. Dasha Zhukova artartist Change image and share on social
I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art. Corita Kent artbravefreely Change image and share on social
Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? Nicolas Cage artliepicasso Change image and share on social
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. Michel Foucault artfactindividual Change image and share on social
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution. Donald Johanson animalartbeing share on social
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism. Judy Chicago artconcerndeep Change image and share on social