Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
Franz Liszt
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando
Monday, November 29, 2010
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"Tattoos to me are are like the Walmart of rebellion. I think I was looking for some kind of outward display of anguish that I was a serious person." - Actor Ryan Teynolds
A great tattoo is a statement, not a style. And getting it is a journey, not a destination. - Vince Hemingson
Jack Rudy on Tattoos -- "It's a good thing they (tattoos) hurt, otherwise every pussy in the world would have one."
The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos. -- Author Unknown
A great tattoo is a statement, not a style. And getting it is a journey, not a destination. - Vince Hemingson
Jack Rudy on Tattoos -- "It's a good thing they (tattoos) hurt, otherwise every pussy in the world would have one."
The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos. -- Author Unknown
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My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Clara Schumann
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
Paul Getty
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock
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Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.
Isabelle Huppert
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo
I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.
Aristide Maillol
I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.
Robert Rauschenberg
I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.
Jimmy Carl Black
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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author. (Anish Kapoor)
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements. (Barbara Kruger)
The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want. (Michael Scott)
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. (Michael Scott)
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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. (Francis Bacon)
-talking about contemporary art...
Shellac it, and send it to Rona. (Chris Bohnert)
Contrary to the artistic expressions that characterize the world of art as we have known for a millennium, contemporary art has reached a hermetic language that requires constant translation from the pompous words of screwed critics. (Vittorio Canta)
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. (Donald Judd)
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Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale. (Abe Ajay)
I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air. (Josef Albers)
I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects. (Arman)
I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air. (Josef Albers)
I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects. (Arman)
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