Art(212)

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
Jonathan Swift

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
Twyla Tharp

"This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish."
Judith Thurman

"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."
Lionel Trilling

"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."
Leon Trotsky

"The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art."
Kenneth Tynan

"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
John Updike

"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all."
John Updike

"Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it."
Benita Valente

"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
Paul Valery