Art Quote by Evelyn Waugh

At Venice, there is always this sense of the world coming together for art.

— Michele Lamy

Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering,…

— Julian Young

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice…

— Romare Bearden

The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of…

— Anton Ehrenzweig

... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at…

— Gabriel Orozco

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating…

— Jerry Saltz

“In fact, if a museum were filled with all of the world's stolen artworks, it would be the most impressive collection ever created. It…

— Ulrich Boser

The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be…

— Helen Keller

The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe…

— Thomas Heatherwick

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

— Raymond Chandler

If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

— Nancy Lancaster

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.

— Bari Weiss