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 business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”
-- David Herbert Lawrence
“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.”
-- Carl Rogers
“Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.”
-- David Bailey
“I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.”
-- Shia LaBeouf