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...
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.
Georgia O’Keeffe : in my head
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me — so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away...
Judy Chicago : feminism is humanism
I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I...
Keith Haring on context
talking about empty billboards in the subway: I kept seeing more and more of these black spaces, and I drew on them whenever I saw one. Because they were so fragile, people left them alone and respected them; they didn’t rub them out or try to mess them up. It gave them this other power....
Alice Neel on truth.
I do not know if the truth that I have told will benefit the world in any way. I managed to do it at great cost to myself and perhaps to others. It is hard to go against the tide of one’s time, milieu and position. But at least I tried to reflect innocently the...