Art Quotes by Mason Cooley

Art chooses its constraints.

— Mason Cooley

Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.

— Mason Cooley

The aphorist is a hit and run artist.

— Mason Cooley

Every work of art changes its predecessors.

— Mason Cooley

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

— Mason Cooley

In love as in art, good technique helps.

— Mason Cooley

Art can make chaos seductive.

— Mason Cooley

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

— Mason Cooley

The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

— Mason Cooley

In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.

— Mason Cooley

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

— Mason Cooley

All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

— Mason Cooley

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

— Mason Cooley

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

— Mason Cooley

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

— Mason Cooley

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

— Mason Cooley

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

— Mason Cooley

Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.

— Mason Cooley

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

— Mason Cooley

New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.

— Mason Cooley

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

— Mason Cooley

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

— Mason Cooley

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

— Mason Cooley

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

— Mason Cooley

We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.

— Mason Cooley

In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.

— Mason Cooley

The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.

— Mason Cooley

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

— Mason Cooley