It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated ...
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat ...
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.
Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.
