Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.
I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.
There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.
I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.
Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.
There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.
The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.
I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.
Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.
