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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…
- Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.
- There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.
- Art is a self-replicating force.
- Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so…
- More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about.…
- Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.
- Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.
- Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in…
- 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…
- Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or…
- Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility…
- 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.…
- Energy and art go where they will.
- 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,…
- Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.
- John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.
- Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse…
- 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…
- Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
- 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.
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