“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”
Art refuses to sit still or be easily defined, and the best quotes about it do the same. Here you will find painters, sculptors, musicians, and writers wrestling with creativity, beauty, meaning, and the maddening gap between what you imagine and what you manage to make.
“Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.”
“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
“I hate art auctions.”
“I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.”
“The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.”
“When art wins, everyone wins.”
“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”
“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.”
“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.”
“My trade and art is to live.”
“In art the best is good enough.”
“Art is the daughter of freedom.”
“There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.”
“A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.”