Fun Facts and Quotes
What did it sell for?
- Edgar Degas-Young Dancer at 14(bronze), 1871-1881 Sold for $11,882,500 in 1996
- Vincent Van Gogh-Wheat Feild with Cypresses, 1889 Sold for $57,000,000 in 1993
- Salvador Dali-Swans of the Elephants, 1937 Sold for $3,522,500 in 1995
- Robert Mapplethorpe-Calla Lily ( photo), 1997 Sold for $63,250 in 1994
- Edvard Munch -Girls on a bridge , 1902 Sold for $7,702,500 in 1996
- Pablo Picasso-Yo Picasso, N.D. Sold for $47,850,000 in 1989
- Andy Warhol-Soup Can, 1962 Sold for $376,500 in 1996
Art Quotations:
- "Any art communicates what you are in the mood to recieve." -Larry Rivers
- "How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are a vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be predjudiced. I am a visual art."- Kermit the Frog
- " Fine Art is that which the hand, the head, and the heart of a man go together."-John Ruskin
- " Art is an idea. It is not enough to draw, paint, and sculpt. An artist should be able to think."-Gurdon Woods
- " The art of a people is the true mirror to their minds."- Jawaharla Nehru
- "Art washes from the soul the dust of every day life."-Pablo Picasso
- "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."- Edgar Degas
- " To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at." -Claude Monet
- " Looking is a gift, but seeing is a power."-Jeff Berner
- " Pottery is at once the simplest and the most difficult of the arts."-Sir Herbert Read
- " If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens." -Grandma Moses
- " All art is an individual's expression of culture. Cultures differ, so art looks different."-Henry Glassie
- " The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but the inward significance."-Aristotle