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artist quotes

On Pho­tog­ra­phy, James Fee

We will only be free as pho­tog­ra­phers when we share the free­dom that paint­ing has. We must see the world in a more per­sonal way, more con­densed. Inter­pret life, not record it.

I don’t think that art comes from art.

I don’t think that art comes from art. A lot of artists appar­ently think so. I think it comes from the awak­en­ing person…Everything tends toward awak­en­ing, and I would rather use the word awak­en­ing than a word derived from some sys­tem — because there are many sys­tems. — ISAMU NOGUCHI 1987

artist quote : about art, oscar wilde

When the crit­ics do not agree among them­selves, the artist is in accord with himself. oscar wilde [Irish writer 1854–1900]

artist quote : susan sontag

One can be seri­ous about the friv­o­lous, friv­o­lous about the seri­ous. — Susan Sontag

Quo­ta­tion: James Rosen­quist, Amer­i­can painter.

Liv­ing in the Plains, you’d see sur­real things; you’d see mirages. I’m sit­ting on the front porch, as a lit­tle kid at sun­set, and the sun is in back of me, and walk­ing across the hori­zon is a Tro­jan horse four sto­ries tall. I go “Uh oh—what’s that?” So I run into the house and...

Wass­ily Kandin­sky: the soul vibrating

Colour is the key. The eye is the ham­mer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touch­ing this or that key, sets the soul vibrat­ing automatically. Wass­ily Kandin­sky (1866–1944)

Abstract art Ken­neth Noland

Speak­ing about the future of abstract art. “It’s a fer­tile field that we barely have explored, and young artists will return to it… I’m certain.” The death of Ken­neth Noland is a loss. The amaz­ing work of his career is inspir­ing. His ded­i­ca­tion to abstrac­tion was prfound.

Twyla Tharp on art

Art is the only way to run away with­out leav­ing home. — Twyla Tharp

Susan Son­tag on art.

Real art has the capac­ity to make us nervous. – Susan Sontag

Robert Rauschen­berg, a giant in Amer­i­can art

Paint­ing relates to both art and life. Nei­ther can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.) – Robert Rauschen­berg, 1959 from the New York Times Robert Rauschen­berg, the irre­press­ibly pro­lific Amer­i­can artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th cen­tury, died on Mon­day night at his home on Cap­tiva Island,...

Thor­ton Willis : its the same painting

stills: Col­or­field paint­ings have always been a favorite. This is a won­der­ful con­ver­sa­tion with Thor­ton Willis. His paint­ings as fresh today as when he began. from the artist: To describe 21st Cen­tury spa­tial con­cepts (in paint­ing) is to try and depict the basic inter­con­nect­ed­ness of mat­ter in which form only appears sep­a­rate. In fact, all form...