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.”
“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