Quotes About Art

My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

As an artist in this day and age with social media, you feel more like an object than you do a human.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective view.

When I wrote my book about Amsterdam, the main objective was to talk about the city's creativity rather than just its design.

To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.

I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least.

I don't have a problem to say I am a good merchandiser, because I love objects.

I had the fortune to evolve at a time when fashion was very important, and women dressed themselves very well. A woman who dressed very well also had a husband who would have beautiful collections of art and decorative objects.

The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.