« All Art Quotes · Martin Filler's Page
Art Quotes by Martin Filler
- What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial…
- The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure…
- A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque…
- All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles…
- Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from…
- Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving…
- Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been…
- Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus -…
- Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval…
- We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of…
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov