“Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.” ArtArt IsIdealsContactMediumsTranscendental Author:Gerhard Richter
“A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.” HumansArtMadeHumanityArt IsContactVacuumsImmune Author:R. B. Kitaj
“I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.” ArtKidsYoungSportsInvolvedConflictArt IsContactMartial ArtsCollision Author:Brad Tavares
“Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.” MenArtArt IsFellowsBoundsContactFellow ManExtending Book:Adam Bede Source: Adam Bede
“My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. We're talking about a closeted person with minimum contact with reality who has trouble tying his f**king shoes! And he's supposed to be political? A bus driver has a better perspective on things. Artists are completely indulgent.” PersonsArtProblemRealityPoliticalArtistTalkingTroublePerspectiveKingsTerribleArt IsShoesContactSupposed To BeDriversBusMinimumBus DriverPerspective On ThingsPolitical Art Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.” ArtDangerousOughtArt IsPreparedIgnorantContactCensorshipForbiddenChasteCensoring Author:Pablo Picasso
“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.” WorldMindDoeArtIdeasPaintingEternalSpringArt IsSupremeContactWorks Of ArtPlatoSpeculationPlato SShelley Book:Ulysses Source: Ulysses
“...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)” ArtMediaTheoryReaderArt IsDirectContactOur TimeListenersViewersNoisyOpaque Author:Milan Kundera
“Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.” IfsShouldArtDangerousArt IsPreparedIllContactChaste Author:Pablo Picasso