January 2022 – Art Wiz Codex

“You know, if one paints someone’s portrait, one should not know him if possible.” — Otto Dix | #Art

“You know, if one paints someone’s portrait, one should not know him if possible.” — Otto Dix

“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.” — J. Paul Getty

“Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.” — Hans Hofmann

“To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.” — Andrew Wyeth

“People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.” — Walter Annenberg

“Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?” — Alfred de Vigny

“I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.” — Steve Lacy

“Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.” — Martin Kippenberger

“But I’m not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.” — John Galliano

“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.” — Ad Reinhardt