Accumulation Quote by Douglas Crimp

“[...] For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the same way…

— John Berger

“Life, raw life, the kind we lead every day, whether it leads us into the past or the future, has the curious property of…

— Wright Morris

“Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in daily fidelity.”

— Albert Camus

“Art, to be fully appreciated, must be true to contemporaneous life. It is not that we should ignore the claims of posterity, but that…

— Kakuzō Okakura

“The classic images Shakespeare, Balzac, and Tolstoy created were born from their mental wombs. But today's practitioners of literacture have lost that creativity. Their…

— Liu Cixin

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

“Remember, art is an extension of self. ......... The unique distinction of being created in the image of God is that what we create…

— Erwin Raphael McManus

“Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.”

— Louis Faurer

A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs…

— Arnold Aronson

“None can imitate life without the intermediary of art.”

— William Bolitho

“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of…

— Max Beckmann