Quotes About Art

She had tried for months now to think of her own performance, some unique revelation of the absurdity of life, but she had no capacity for new ideas. She could see an existing artwork and understand why it was or was not successful. But she could not take that knowledge and arrange it into something wholly original, or even a reinterpretation of that existing piece. She was, as Hobart had explained to her, as kindly as possible, simply a critic.

She walked back into the kitchen and placed the dishes in the sink. She picked up the phone and dialed Sally's office number, relieved to be shuttled to her voice mail. "Sally," she said, walking, as always, straight into the sun, "I think I fucked you over again." the portrait of a lady, 1988 artists: caleb and camille fang None of the Fangs could deny it: Buster was beautiful.

I wondered if that was kind of the purpose of art, maybe, to make you see things that you knew but couldn't say out loud.

Your parents were right. They beat me by completely inverting my theory. Kids don't kill art. Art kills kids.

Often, in death, everything else fails. We are left only with the music and the meaning of poetry.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

I am a huge fashion fan. It's a really cool way to express yourself.

I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.

Jealousy, like poetry, is incomprehensible to me.

The truth is, life is difficult and intense. The beauty is that we have art and love to give us solace, and joy, a reason to live and a reason to care about what happens in, and to, the world.

Picasso said, "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

The artists who copied Rembrandt did so to learn about painting, not to be lesser versions of the master. They imitated as a way of looking closely, and then used what they had learned to develop their own work, brushstroke by brushstroke. Line by line, you can do the same.

More than any expert Irene had met, Mr. Simms mastered the intricacies of dealing in art. He understood an object's worth, not solely its dollar value but how that value could be manipulated into emotional currency.

I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment.

that's why for me the page, the gallery, and the stage became the only places my emotions could be expressed and acted out comfortably. These were the venues where I could exhibit sexuality, anger, a lack of concern for what people thought.

for me the page, the gallery, the stage became the only places my emotions could be expressed and acted out comfortably.

Maybe for a performer that's what a stage becomes: a space you can fill up with what can't be expressed or gotten anywhere else.

My identity was straightforward: I had made art since I was five years old, and aside from dance, art was the only thing that interested me. If that didn't fit into the conventions of the day, who cared?

One day I picked up the phone to hear a middle-aged female voice asking if there were "any green Salles" left; she wanted to match Salle's art to the color scheme of her living room furniture. It's all such a joke,

Fluxus explored art as a process, using the viewer, or the audience, to complete the work. It asked, What can art be?

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Once Dan told me he wished he could make art that was like a Kinks song. (A lot of artists listen to music while they work, and many think, Why can't I make art that looks as intense as the sounds I'm hearing? I don't have an answer.)