Abolish Quote by Charles Simic

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

— Robert Henri

Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies,…

— Allan Kaprow

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have…

— Eugenio Montale

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with…

— Philip Guston

A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.

— Lazaro Hernandez

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a…

— Matthew Slotover

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

— John Ruskin

“The object [Duchamp's Fountain] was rejected , giving Duchamp the opportunity of issuing a statement, which he published in a review, The Blind Man.…

— Neville Weston

“For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, baskets, and quilts and elevates them to art…

— Jimmy Carter

That's what art allows us to do, is process things.

— Lily Gladstone

I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do…

— Anonymous

The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid…

— Audrey Niffenegger