Art(212)

"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
Federico Fellini

"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
Gustave Flaubert

"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."
E. M. Forster

"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."
E. M. Forster

"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."
Augustus Saint-Gaudens

"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
Paul Gauguin

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
Paul Gauguin

"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
Paul Gauguin

"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."
Paul Gauguin

"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
Kahlil Gibran