Art Quote by Michael Kimmelman

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could…

— Frank Gehry

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

— Jerry Saltz

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

— Mervyn Levy

One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the…

— Jose Parla

The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and,…

— Paul Delaroche

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a German sculptor…

— Joseph Beuys

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

— Herbert Read

When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner - who…

— DJ Spooky

“But perhaps the the great work of art has less importance in itself than in the ordeal it demands of a man and the…

— Albert Camus

“If there was one great benefit to the whole practice of art, it was to focus him in the “now,” where the ugly past…

— Christina McKenna

For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost…

— Paul Auster