Art(212)

"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep."
Marc Chagall

"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."
Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."
John Ciardi

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
Jean Cocteau

"In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know it's a big Picasso and it's the city's Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else."
Pat Colander

"The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."
Cyril Connolly

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
Charles Horton Cooley

"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
Charles Horton Cooley