|
Andrew O'Hagan |
Art
you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the
loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp. (The Telegraph, Jan 1, 2005) |
|
Kakuzo
Okakura
[1862-1913] |
The
canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator’s mind. |
|
Georgia
O'Keeffe |
Nobody
sees a flower, really – it is so small – we haven't time,
and to see
takes time, like to have a friend takes time. |
|
Georgia
O'Keeffe |
I
have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long
time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I
don't get acquainted easily. |
|
Georgia
O'Keeffe |
Bement
was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I
guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I
believe that to
create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage. |
|
Georgia
O'Keeffe |
Filling
a space in a beautiful way – that's what art means to me. |
|
Georgia
O'Keeffe |
I
found that I could say things with color and shapes that I
couldn't say in any other way - things I had no words for.
[1923] |
|
Georgia
O'Keeffe |
I
like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life. |
|
Georgia
O'Keeffe |
I
know I cannot paint a flower. I cannot paint the sun on
the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of
paint color I can convey to you my experience of the flower or
the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at
that particular time. |
|
Claes
Oldenburg |
I am
for an art that is political-erotic-mystical, that does
something else than sit on its ass in a museum. (1961) |
|
Claes
Oldenburg |
Because
my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it
will remain doubtful and inconsistent -- which is the way it
should be. All that I care about is that, like any startling
piece of nature, it should be capable of stimulating meaning. |
|
Claes
Oldenburg |
The
main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to
expand and intensify the presence of the vessel -- the object. |
|
Frederick
Law Olmstead |
The
Park throughout is a single work of art, and as such, is subject
to the primary law of every work of art, namely, that it shall
be framed upon a single, noble motive, to which the design of
all its parts, in some more or less subtle way, shall be
confluent and helpful.
(Writing about Central
Park, NY) |
|
George
Orwell
[1903-50] |
The
artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on
ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word “Art,” and
everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over
them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a
film like L’Age d’Or is O.K. |
