Quotes about art
art ideas theory
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. Jerry Saltz
art men thinking
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.
art mean past
Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.
art past world
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
art white people
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
art mushrooms names
Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.
art years ironic
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.
art matter taste
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
art world art-world
I like that the art world isn't regulated.
art said critics
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
artist space ordinary
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
art journey epic
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
art immigrants
All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
art genius weirdness
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
artist may
Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
art world opinion
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
artist age tiny
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
art home america
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
artist perfect photographer
The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.
art museums united-states
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.
art levels existentialism
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
art ideas world
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
art cities venice
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
art world periods
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
art museums melting
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
art art-is subjective
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.
artist shock harder
Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.
art georgia-o-keeffe world
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
art giants aesthetic
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
art special something-special
The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
art volunteer world
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.
art winning
When art wins, everyone wins.
artist house female
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.