Famous quotes containing the words fine art, black, fine and/or art:
“Fine art is the only teacher except torture.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death.... I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.”
—Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)
“The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)