Art Quotes
“There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.”
“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.”
-- E. M. Forster
“Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.”
-- Louis Kahn
“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
-- John Keats