Famous quotes containing the words fine art, black, fine and/or art:
“... that softening influence of the fine arts which makes other people’s hardships picturesque ...”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.”
—Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)
“When I have seen fine statues, and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, “When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art—and, by analogy, our own experience—more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)