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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.
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, read more
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.
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack read more
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it "joy"?.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
