Art Quote by Roberta Smith Download Open image “You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.” — Roberta Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Contemporary Contemporary art Going Itself Know Never Normally You Zone
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it? — David Hockney Copy Share Image
No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people. — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with… — Massimiliano Gioni Copy Share Image
Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together. — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks. — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that George W.… — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky,… — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the… — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image