Art Quotes
“Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.”
“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”
-- Gertrude Stein
“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.”
-- Jerry Saltz