“Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.” MadeDoorsActivityDiscoveryWasting TimeDessertBack Doors Author:Jean Wilson
“A chance to collaborate with one of my favorite bands in a completely open and supportive creative environment... some our best work.” ChanceCreativeEnvironmentBandMy FavoriteCollaborationSupportiveBest WorkFavorite Bands Author:Dave Genn
“What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate your own ego from your idea, then, almost always, everybody will arrive at the same decision as to what is best.” IfsTryingIdeasDecisionCreativeAchieveEgoCollectivesCollaborationAlways Trying Author:Dave Genn
“A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.” IfsKnowsYearsKindReasonPlayMusicPiecesPeriodsGuitarWoodsViolinViolinistResonating Author:Dave Genn
“You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.” DifferentEnoughNicePaintGuitarShoesPalette Author:Dave Genn
“Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.” PeopleMadeProblemTodayGratefulPlentyDesperateCollaborationCollaborators Author:Alexander Stoddart
“Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.” ArtCultureArt IsContemporaryEpochContemporary Art Author:Alexander Stoddart
“Somebody will be exhibiting a bunch of bananas in a gallery, and they'll get me on to talk dirty about it.” CriticsBunchDirtyGalleryBananasDirty Talk Author:Alexander Stoddart
“I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.” MenArtWantedTroubleHe ManMastersCrowdsCouncilScottishGraveyard Author:Alexander Stoddart
“Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.” KindArtFactsArt IsBoundsDescriptionExhaustedModernismConceptual Art Author:Alexander Stoddart