|
Robert
Rauschenberg |
It
was like 10 cents for a quart can downtown, because nobody knew
what
color it was. I would just go and buy a whole mess of
paint, and the only organization, choice or discipline was that
I had to use some or all of it, and I wouldn't buy any more
paint until I'd used that up.
(quoted in catalog to Color Chart exhibition at MoMA
2008) |
|
Robert
Rauschenberg |
I
think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have
learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more
only encourages your limitations. |
|
Man
Ray |
There
is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making
love.
There are simply different ways of doing it. |
|
Ad
Reinhardt |
Sculpture
is what you bump into when you’re trying to get a good look at
a
painting. |
|
Pierre-Auguste
Renoir
(1841-1914) |
Shall
I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art?
First, it must be indescribable, and, second, it must be
inimitable.
(In interview with Walter Pach 1912) |
|
Pierre-Auguste
Renoir |
A
picture should be pleasing, cheerful and pretty - yes, pretty!
There are plenty of dull things in life without creating
any more.
I know people aren’t willing to admit that a picture
can be a great painting if it is a cheerful one.
Because Fragonard laughed, he was soon classified as a
minor artist.
Cheerful people aren't taken seriously.
Art got up in a pompous fashion will always impress.
(Quoted in Francois Fosca, Renoir: His Life and Work,
1962) |
|
William
Riley |
Just
because I made a painting, doesn't mean I know all there is to
know about it. |
|
Diego
Rivera |
If
it isn't propaganda, it isn't art. |
|
Diego
Rivera |
To
be an artist, one must first be a man vitally concerned with all
problems of social struggle. . . never withdrawing from life. |
|
Auguste
Rodin |
Great
works of art, which are the highest proof of human intelligence
and sincerity, say all that can be said on man and on the world,
and besides, they teach that there is something more that cannot
be known . . .We (artists) are misunderstood. Lines and colors are only to us symbols of hidden
realities. Our eyes
plunge beneath the surface to the hidden meaning of things, and
when afterwards we reproduce the form, we endow it with the
spiritual meaning which it covers. An artist worthy of the name
should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior
truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.
(Art, 1912) |
|
James
Rosenquist |
It
was startling and incredible. But I couldn’t get a handle on one piece – I looked
at it for 2 hours, I couldn’t even realize a question out of
it.
(On visiting Robert Rauschenberg and seeing new his work at 3:00
am) |
|
Susan
Rothenburg |
You
make art by taking a lot of time looking at it. |
|
Mark
Rothko |
There
is more power in telling little than in telling all.
[Lecture to the Pratt Institute, 1958] |
|
Georges
Rouault |
Subjective
artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind. |
|
Donald
Rumsfeld |
There
are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There
are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we
know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There
are things we don’t know we don’t know. ( March 2003) |
|
John
Russell |
When
art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense
of solidarity with our own time, and of psychic energies shared
and redoubled, which is just about the most satisfying thing
that life has to offer. [The Meanings of Modern Art] |
