French revolution Quote by Stephanie Dupal

“In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The…

— David McCullough

“Unless we are very young or lifelong fools, we do not look to artists --- or their biographers --- for our role models. Their…

— Jesse Kornbluth

“Faced with the blazing magnificence of the everyday, the artist is both humbled and provoked. There are photographs now of events on an unimaginable…

— Salman Rushdie

“There's a reason why I tell this story. To me these Sunday painters represent myo—the strangeness of beauty—an idea that transcendence can be found…

— Lydia Minatoya

“... and people who have kids, people with husbands and jobs and mortgages, don't much want to hear about other people's paintings.”

— Michele Young-Stone

“There was nothing particularly striking about them except that they were artists of the kind that talk. Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout…

— Sherwood Anderson

“The claims of contemporary art cannot be ignored in any vital scheme of life. The art of to-day is that which really belongs to…

— Kakuzō Okakura

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people…

— Joshua Reynolds

“The world is full of Guses--good-looking boys and girls who've been dealt the best possible genetic hand by parents and grandparents and great-grandparents who…

— Michael Cunningham

Beauty has became a pejorative word in art. It was not something one should aspire to, because it was pedestrian. Beautiful things became cheap…

— Damian Loeb

“I presume this is part of your erotic art collection?" she mused out loud. "It is most beautifully done; only look at the masterful…

— Tracy Anne Warren

“A lover of comfort might shrug after looking at the whole apparent jumble of furniture, old paintings, statues with missing arms and legs, engravings…

— Ivan Goncharov