| Author |
Quotes |
| A Alvarez | Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values. |
| Aaron Howard | Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening. |
| Adolf Berle | The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. |
| Al Capp | Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. |
| Albert Camus | Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. |
| Alexander Calder | I paint with shapes. |
| Alexander Eliot | So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. |
| Andre Breton | The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. |
| Andre Gide | Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. |
| Andy Warhol | An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. |
| Andy Warhol | Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. |
| Andy Warhol | Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details. |
| Andy Warhol | Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. |
| Ansel Adams | You don't take a photograph, you make it. |
| Ansel Adams | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. |
| Ansel Adams | The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. |
| Anthony Burgess | Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. |
| Arthur Fellig | When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track. |
| Auguste Rodin | I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. |
| Auguste Rodin | I invent nothing, I rediscover. |
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