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- All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art...Skill has nothing to…
- The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all…
- After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They're more interested in the possible than the probable, the private…
- I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is…
- All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.
- Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.…
- Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.
- Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird,…
- The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most…
- All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
- Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
- I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too.
- In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's…
- Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.
- The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be…
- 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 of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon…
- Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing…
- Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the…
- Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always…
- I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their…
- I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get…
- If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art…
- Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out,…
- Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle