Art Quotes
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Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.
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I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.
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I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.
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I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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You don't have a balanced life if you don't have art.
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I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.
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I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler.
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"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."
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I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with them for that ride and became associated with it.
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Their forms had no more influence on me than they did on Matisse. Or Derain. But for them, the masks were sculptures like all others. When Matisse showed me his first African head, he spoke to me of Egyptian art.
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I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.
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To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out.
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Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.
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When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.
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We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.
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Science and art are not opposed.
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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The thing about conceptual art is that it has no solid or finite meaning. So the work can exist simultaneously in many minds at once, and all those minds can see it differently. The artist offers the clues. The spectator offers the reading. You see what you want to see.
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All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.
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You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can't. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.
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For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.
