Henry James
(1843-1916)

There is a limit to what it is worthwhile to attempt to say about the greatest artists.  [Les Maitres d'autrefois]

Henry James

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes impotance. . . and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Steve Jobs
(1955-2011)

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but becomes beautiful later. [Quoted by his sister Mona Simpson in her eulogy, New York Times Oct 30, 2011]

Steve Jobs

Creativity is just connecting things.

Lyndon Johnson

Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. [September 29, 1965, while signing the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act]

Philip Johnson
(architect)

Whoever commissions buildings buys me. I am for sale. I am a whore. I am an artist.

Jonathan Jones
(art critic, journalist)

No serious art is easy to interpret.  Nor is there ever a single valid interpretation of art.  If art is good, there are many things to be said about it and much that will remain unsayable.