We maybe are in good artistic standing, though not totally off the hook. Quirky artworks penchant for exaggeration repeatedly placed themselves in extraordinary danger by escaping into hyper-niche aesthetics.
Green ghost is a prisoner of his own mind
Most of the people in this room are experimentalists, they think they understand this equation, but, really, they don't. The only people who really understand it are the theoreticians.
Daniel Dennett
It had been claimed by formalism critics like Clement Greenberg and Donald Judd that a scientific theory of visual arts is not possible because human behaviors do not follow predictable patterns.
Break down the hierarchy for what passes for art in our culture. Loveliness explore the world of the unreal is a child of artistic license.
Colors evoke ghostly associations which are culturally determined.
Harmony of coloring is destructive of art...it is like the smile of a fool (William Blake).
The most common activity in corporate meetings is making ephemeral artworks, drawing small graphics, keeping your neurons busy because imagination is a boredom killer and an efficient mean to improve creativity drawing the flow of time.
Everyone parrots the Warren Buffett proverb about finding out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
Duchamp was an intellectual, as was Beuys, as is Haacke. The artist has become a theorist.
I have spent my life making blunders (Pierre-Auguste Renoir). Everything is replaceable, but existence is the meaning.
Successful artists view mistakes as opportunities to hijack extrinsic meaning.
Artistic licence breeds terrible artworks to reclaim cultural relevance away from elite gatekeepers.
I hope I have not completely failed in leading you up to the ladder from intuitive concepts to abstract ideas. It's a real hoot.
Hermann Weyl, Quantity has a quality all of its own.
How to talk about universal themes in art ? Where it is shown that weird art can make a difference, waiting too much isn't much of a way to live a life. Interesting paintings are fiendishly difficult to catch and analyse, especially once they have been removed from their supportive museum surroundings. A hotbed for contemporary art is responding to mood and loveliness.
Art irony is not a substitute for instinctive artworks.
Ingres was a perfectionist, an eternally dissatisfied artist who sought the ideal beauty, constantly revisiting his compositions, modifying them and enriching them, sometimes after several decades.
Wake me up when life is fun again.
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