Artist Quotes by Mason Cooley

Art can make chaos seductive.

— Mason Cooley

Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

— Mason Cooley

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

— Mason Cooley

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

— Mason Cooley

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

— Mason Cooley

Art chooses its constraints.

— Mason Cooley

Every work of art changes its predecessors.

— Mason Cooley

The aphorist is a hit and run artist.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

— Mason Cooley

Every representation, even of an orgy, is a sublimation.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

— Mason Cooley

In love as in art, good technique helps.

— Mason Cooley

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

— 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

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

— Mason Cooley

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

— Mason Cooley