Art Quotes
“Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.”
“Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.”
-- Robert Morgan
“In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.”
-- Damien Hirst
“Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.”
-- Walter Murch
“Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.”
-- Marshall McLuhan
“My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.”
-- Jennifer Garner