Art Quotes
“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.”
“Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.”
-- Brad Holland
“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.”
-- Ludwig Erhard
“The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
-- Oscar Wilde