“Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.” ArtFashionProductsArt IsCriticsWorks Of ArtTransient Author:Robert Genn
“Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.” ArtUsePurposeArtistDealsFashionObjectsSeriousHigherArt IsSacredSevereEmployed Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.” ShouldArtUsedFashionFieldsArt IsNoble Author:E. A. Bucchianeri
“Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.” YearsHas BeensArtTwoBeautifulFormLawQualityPrinciplesClearFashionMonthsSixEternalArt IsHundredDressesRationalFollySix MonthsUglinessUnbearableIn-lawsEphemeral Author:Oscar Wilde
“Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.” WorldGivingArtReasonFashionArt IsImpression Author:Raf Simons
“The difference between fashion and art is that fashion is art in movement.” ArtDifferencesFashionMovementArt IsFashion And Art Author:Carolina Herrera
“The only way to make a criticism of something is to really participate in it. I'm a completely capitalist person. I participate in commodity culture and the fashion world. High art is a money-making vehicle. We're not making art in a vacuum. We're not shopping in the woods. These are all things that we do within the larger system of capitalism. For me to critique it, I'm also participating in it. That's obvious, I feel. In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.” WorldArtCultureFashionArt IsCapitalismCriticismObviousCapitalistVehicleCommodityCritique Author:Chloe Wise
“I consider that sex is part of life as much as architecture, fashion, art or food. Sex is life, simple. And I refuse to consider that sex should be hidden. When you hide sex, problems start because sex becomes dangerous.” ArtProblemSimpleFashionDangerousArt IsArchitectureSimple Life Author:Olivier Zahm
“I think a lot of people are involved in art because of the fashion of art and the conversation. It gives them a certain sophistication, something to speak about. But art is, if it's conceptual, really about understanding the concept. And if it's beautiful, it's about seeing the beauty. It's gone much further than that now. There's too much commercialism attached to art. If the market cracks one day big-time, you'll frighten so many people away who will never come back. Because they don't really feel for art. People who buy art should want it because they love it, they want to enjoy it.” PeopleThinkingGivingArtBeautifulSpeakEnjoyUnderstandingFashionOne DayArt IsSophisticationCommercialism Author:Laurence Graff
“By the late '50s, something was happening in England, and it got to be quite exciting. The music world then started to explode with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. It was an incredible time with this mixture of independence in art, fashion, and the explosion of the pop sensibility. London was certainly at the center of it all for a few years. And as far as art is concerned, I think that sensibility of what was later called Pop art started in England even before America. And so I was lucky to be there.” ThinkingWorldArtFashionLuckyArt IsConcernedExcitingIndependenceIncrediblesSensibilityRolling StonesPop Art Author:Tony Shafrazi
“Art is like an avalanche being poured down your throat. You know it's going to crack, eventually it's going to go out of fashion. I wish there was much less happening. I wish there were fewer art dealers. I wish there were fewer auctions. I wish there were just two auctions a year.” ArtWishFashionArt IsDealer Author:Laurence Graff
“I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world in a way it maybe isn't in American fiction. Your work of art becomes fashionable the moment it has some kind of political commentary. I think this has its dangers - the equation between fashion, politics, and art is problematic for obvious reasons. Nonetheless, the notion of politics as being de rigueur in the world of fiction is almost unthinkable. In fiction in America at the moment, the escape into whimsy is far more prevalent than the political.” ThinkingWorldWritingKindArtReasonMomentsPoliticalFashionDangerArt IsCriticismObviousFashionableUnthinkable Author:Katie Kitamura
“It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.” HumansArtSoulTodayEnergyBehindsFashionDependsBehaviorArt IsConcernedAppreciationMetalsHuman Behavior Author:Josef Albers