Quotes about art
artist mad cleveland
I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad. Harvey Pekar
art thinking form
I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.
art technology hands
The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is. Harvey Weinstein
artist excellence cost
When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?
art men tragedy
Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films.
artist able great-artist
I've never been able to understand where great artists come from. Harold Prince
art musical theatre
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
art artist kitsch
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist. Harold Rosenberg
art greatness art-is
Greatness in art is always a by-product.
art past self
The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and places stands against him as an entity with objectives and values of its own. In turn, since becoming aware of the organized body of artworks as the obstacle to his own aesthetic self-affirmation, the artist is pushed toward anti-intellectualism and willful dismissal of the art of the past.
art mean appreciated
Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.
art reality artist
In reality, however, an artist is a product of art
art character movement
How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.
art philosophy historical
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
art order done
Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.
art mind mold
Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.
artist self secret
For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations.
art hymns america
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that arbitrariness and importance which works take on when they are no longer noticeable elements of the environment. In America kitsch is Nature. The Rocky Mountains have resembled fake art for a century.
art labyrinth exit
It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.
art creative doe
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that is the genius of the painter, poetry of the poet, and a person is a creative artist to the extent that he participates in that genius.
artist self paint
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
art artist identity
Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.
art museums ongoing
The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.
art past purpose
If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth nothing new in art but reenacts upheavals on the symbolic plane of language. It provides the consoling belief that overthrows are occurring as in the past, that barriers to creation are being surmounted, and that art is pursuing a radical purpose, even if it is only the purpose of doing away with itself.
artist biographies painting
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.
art tradition paradox
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
art practice silence
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.
art lying differences
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
art order conformity
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
art broken painting
The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.
art determination memories
Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of miseries and triumphs will, it is expected, strengthen the unity of the group and its determination to achieve a better future. But emphasizing shared experience as opposed to the artist's consciousness of self (which includes his personal and unshared experience of masterpieces) brings to the fore the tension in the individual artist between being an artist and being a minority artist.
artist today essentials
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.
artist persons
An artist is a person who has invented an artist.