Wherever there is art, there is a staircase over there where you can ascend to the high places!
Mehmet Murat ildanTags: art
Long ago I used to mutter (as you probably do), "Very interesting," and cast a desperate glance around for the punch-bowl. This banal comment fools no one, least of all the artist, and you quickly find you have lost a friend and alienated a roomful of people, all of whom are pretending they like the pictures with a grim kind of appreciation.
Sydney J. HarrisTags: art
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
Andres SerranoTags: inspirational art inspiration artist obsessions
. . . no good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. . . . no great man ever stops working till he has reached his point of failure: that is to say, his mind is always far in advance of his powers of execution, and the latter will now and then give way in trying to follow it; besides that he will always give to the inferior portions of his work only such inferior attention as they require; and according to his greatness he becomes so accustomed to the feeling of dissatisfaction with the best he can do, that in moments of lassitude or anger with himself he will not care though the beholder be dissatisfied also. I believe there has only been one man who would not acknowledge this necessity, and strove always to reach perfection, Leonardo; the end of his vain effort being merely that he would take ten years to a picture and leave it unfinished. And therefore, if we are to have great men working at all, or less men doing their best, the work will be imperfect, however beautiful. Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect, in its own bad way.
John RuskinTags: art philosophy
Fragments are the only forms I trust.
Donald BarthelmeTags: truth art writing trust form
Art is the act of triggering deep memories of what it means to be fully human.
David WhyteTags: inspirational art
Our art is cynical and bad-ass and made by people who will not be happy until you join them in the church of "everything is fucked up, so throw up your hands." This is art as anesthesia.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTags: art cynicism modern-art
Our art is made in cities like New York by people who are running from other places. They feel themselves as misfits who were trapped in dead-end suburbs. They hated high school. Their parents did not understand. They are seeking a better world. And when they realize that the world is wholly a problem, that the whole problem is in them, they make television for other people who are also running, who take voyage in search of a perfect world, then rage at the price of the ticket.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTags: art cynicism misfits modern-art running-away
Those who lack the guts to create critic.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: art courage critics creator guts
Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: money art civilization social-commentary survival artist rent make-a-living sellout
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