Quote of the Day for 2016-09-26

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."

— Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) Minima Moralia, section 143 (1951) translated by E.F.N. Jephcott (1974)

Fall of the Magician engraving by Pieter van der Heyden (1565) after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Quote of the Day for 2016-08-28

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."

— Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) "Life, Art and America," The Seven Arts (February 1917)

The Tree of Forgiveness by Edward Burne Jones (1881-2) based on the story of Phyllis and Demophon

Quote of the Day for 2016-08-02

"Instinct and study; love and hate; / Audacity—reverence. These must mate, / And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, / To wrestle with the angel—Art."

— Herman Melville (1819-1891) "Art," Timoleon, Etc. (1891)

Jacob Wrestling With the Angel by Alexandre-Louis Leloir (1865)

Quote of the Day for 2016-07-30

"All art, which strove to make the sensations of a moment soul-satisfying, was dimly felt to be irreligious. For art performed what religion only promised."

— James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) The Cream of the Jest, chapter 26 (1917)

Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses by John William Waterhouse (1891)

Quote of the Day for 2016-06-12

"Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance."

— Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Every Man out of His Humour, act 1, scene 1 (1598)

Man in a Polyester Suit by Robert Mapplethorpe (1980)

Quote of the Day for 2016-05-27

"If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art."

— Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) "New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea," (1946) Style and Idea (1950)

Gentlemen Prefer Blonds by Marco Battaglini (2013) after Allegory of the Arts by Pompeo Batoni (1740)

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-22

"My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth."

— Keariene Muizz (1977-    ) "Standing the Test of Time," NY Arts magazine, December 2008

The Offering, part of the Sacred Stones series by Keariene Muizz (2008)

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-21

"There is a great deal to be said for the Arts. For one thing they offer the only career in which commercial failure is not necessarily discreditable."

— Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) "The Way to Fame"

Andy Warhol, Self-Portraits in Drag, 1980-1982 Polaroid. (In collaboration with Christopher Makos)

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-17

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."

— Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Speech at the Royal Academy of Arts banquet, April 30, 1953

Her Last Supper from the series Her by Marjorie Salvaterra (2014)