The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.
I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.
There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.
I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.
Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.
