|
Charles
Saatchi |
If
you study a great work of art, you’ll probably find the artist
was a kind of
genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. So let’s
have no talk of
temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good
artist is the
toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to
take it on. I
love them all. [The
Art Newspaper Nov 2004] |
|
Arthur
Schopenhauer |
Treat
a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first. |
|
Nettie
Seabrooks |
The
history of civilizations is defined by their art and culture. |
|
David
Sedaris |
Given
enough time, I guess, anything can look good. All it has
to do is survive. [This Old House, published in The New
Yorker, July 2007] |
|
Dr
Seuss |
I
like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. |
|
Ben
Shahn |
I've
been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a
professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur
artist is one who works all week at something else so he can
paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one
whose wife works so he can paint all the time. [Quoted
by William Bostick in the Archives of American Art] |
|
George
Bernard Shaw |
Without
art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. |
|
George
Bernard Shaw |
Which
painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a
fire?
The one nearest the door of course. |
|
Susan
Sontag |
Interpretation
is the revenge of the intellectual on art. |
|
Susan
Sontag |
Do
stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s
shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention.
It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It
connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
[Commencement
address to Vassar students] |
|
Susan
Sontag |
Our
task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of
art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is
already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see
the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now
should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own
experience - more, rather than less, real to us. [Against
Interpretation] |
|
Alfred
Stieglitz |
To
demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person
is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed
into a single still. |
|
Gertrude
Stein |
For
a long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause
almost everybody accepts. |
