Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
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I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs read more
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.
The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of read more
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
