Alive Quote by Jerry Saltz

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which…

— Zaha Hadid

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

— Harrison Birtwistle

Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work;…

— Vik Muniz

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

— Chris Martin

I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior…

— Jerry Saltz

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

— Brooks Atkinson

As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had…

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

— Anna Deavere Smith

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.

— Tom Rachman

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

— Marcel Duchamp

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

— Saul Bellow

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life…

— Charles Ives