Top 496 Art Quotes

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.

When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.