Art Progress Quotes

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.

I'd like to see the comics' style expanded. I'd like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or whatever. I like to see innovation. I don't like it when an art form becomes stagnant.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.