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“It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to understand it.”

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Philip Taaffe

Philip Taaffe is an artist born in 1955, whose professional category is not yet clear. He is known for his unique artistic style and creative philosophy in the contemporary art world. more

“What excites me and what I find most compelling is clearly not what excites other artists. It comes from my own idiosyncratic background and what I'm drawn to. Maybe this is a result of having lived in Naples during a formative period of time. I'm interested in telling a unique story in a very intense way.”

Artist Unique Intense

Author:Philip Taaffe

“I will do a lot of research and create a lot of material for use in one painting. And then I go on discovering and working with a whole other range of material in another painting. I'm interested in a fairly comprehensive and orchestrated synthesis that might bring about a new situation consisting of this hidden material. I'm interested in hidden source material.”

Situation Painting

Author:Philip Taaffe

“I'm very tolerant of other art and other artists. But what I truly appreciate, what I truly admire in contemporary art, is work that takes on more than it can sometimes handle - art that gets in over its head.”

Art Sometimes Artist Art Is Appreciate Admire Over It

Author:Philip Taaffe

“I'm not so interested in this series of ruptures, where minimalism took over pop art, and then neo-expressionism was a triumph over that. I'm not interested in rupture - I'm interested in healing, bringing things together, building bridges. Not dismissing what has come before as a kind of modernist precedent, where one thing has to be broken in order to achieve something else. I don't believe in that kind of attitude. I think we're beyond that at this stage.”

Thinking Believe Kind Art Together Healing Attitude Achieve Building Broken Not Interested Minimalism Pop Art

Author:Philip Taaffe

“Design is meant to grab you and win you over. It is meant to function in a way so as to make life easier. Obviously painting has to do with something quite beyond that. It's not about communication per se. It doesn't necessarily telegraph anything. It's more about understanding who we are and where we come from.”

Winning Understanding Design Painting Communication Over It

Author:Philip Taaffe

“Museums have traditionally been places that protect the art object. But in the last 40 years, a new type of museum has emerged - the Kunsthalle or alternative space which only presents temporary, contemporary shows. Yet art is not just about the future - it is about the future and the present, but it also can't forget the past.”

Art Past Forget Protect Art Is Temporary Forget The Past

Author:Diego Cortez

“Our recent pop-music icons, even the most radical ones, like Björk or Caetano Veloso, often have to present themselves as happy and make positive work because they have such a large young fan base to whom they feel responsible. They can't be too negative. Now, criticism is basically a negative act. As you know, critics are neither pop stars nor popular. They are the gripers. But someone has to speak up and say no to this and yes to that.”

Speak Negative Criticism Responsible Critics Radical

Author:Diego Cortez

“I've always hated the word spirituality, but now I accept the word, and I think it's a useful term. It just means so many things. And actually, most of the things it does connote are beautiful things.”

Thinking Mean Beautiful Spirituality Term Accepting Hated Beautiful Things

Author:Diego Cortez

“I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.”

Mind Soul Path Arms Crosses Library Saved Behalf Librarian

Book:High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is a rejection of earlier Buddhist ideas which were dependent upon narrative - all the mythological creatures that populate the Buddhist galaxy. Zen insisted on the real located in nature.”

Real Painting Buddhism Achievement Garden Buddhist Tea Rejection Galaxy Ceremony Great Achievement

Author:Diego Cortez

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