"i never read about art. i’m not interested in the literature about art. i get all the art magazines, but i don’t read them. i don’t want to be influenced by the reviews. i look. i fill myself with images. it is not necessary to speak so much about art. i am convinced that a great work speaks for itself."

~   philippe ségalot
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27th Jun 2011✧11:0718 notes

"you are materializing - taking something from the inside and putting it out into the world so you can be relieved of it."

~   leslie dick
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27th Jun 2011✧11:073 notes

"unlike gold…art has this other value, an that’s what makes it fascinating. everything else is trying to sell you something else. art is trying to sell you yourself. that’s what is different about it."

~   keith tyson
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23rd Jun 2011✧00:452 notes

"i’ve always thought that wearing badges or ribbons would solve it. if you’re showing in the whitney biennial or at the tate, you could announce it on your jacket. artists could wear stripes like generals, so everyone would know their rank."

~   john baldessari, 2008
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23rd Jun 2011✧00:2738 notes

"in the process of self-definition, an art form will tend toward the elimination of all the elements which are not in keeping with its essential nature. according to this argument, visual art will be stripped of all extravisual meaning, whether literary or symbolic, and painting will reject all that is not pictorial ."

~   barbara rose
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7th Jun 2011✧10:483 notes

"i would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge, and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence."

~   rules of art, pierre bourdieu
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13th May 2011✧07:557 notes

"criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen."

~   george jean nathan, american critic
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