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.”
“Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'”
-- Jef I. Richards
“Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
-- Benjamin Disraeli
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.”
-- Alexander Pope