“Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful.” WorldWayMindHumansArtRealityActionMovingSexRichCarEventsArt IsOriginalsMeaningfulThanksMake SenseSignificanceHuman MindPrincipalCrashRugbyRemakesVirtual RealityEditedSlow MotionReplayCar Crash Author:J. G. Ballard
“Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.” PeopleWantGivingArtEndsBornPoorRichArt IsBrilliantImmortalityPocketsSubstitutesMuseumsClosestShrouds Author:Damien Hirst
“but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of art-the kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few” MindKindMeanArtEyeFormWaitingSecretWonderRichEvolutionTasteMassArt IsPerfectionTransformationJealousRelativeYearningLockedGalleryTangibleRipeCollectorsTremblingEphemeralGlueCoarseHeathenWelding Author:Laird Barron
“I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.” ThinkingArtDreamRichKingsArt IsOur DreamsMisleadEscapismBeing Rich Author:Saul Williams
“Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats individuals as worthy of scrutiny. That alone is a kind of political act. A good novel about a tea party of rich women can be just as galvanizing and important to the soul as War and Peace, so I think it's not really the job of artists to do anything. They can have their opinions as private citizens, but they must continue making their art.” ThinkingKindArtImportantWarSoulPoliticalArtistIndividualPartyOpinionNovelRichGloryArt IsDemocraticWorthyTeaTea Party Author:Paul Auster
“What I think is dreadful about art is the way it's related to the money afterward. Not when you do it... But after that, it's like 5,000 rich people have access to it. A movie, even though it can be a bad movie or a good movie, it is more democratic. The people who buy my films, the people who buy my installations it's sometimes a foundation or a museum. When it's a foundation, it's related to very, very, very rich people - who are your enemies! Your enemies are feeding you. But you're not meeting them. So it's a very strange thing.” PeopleThinkingArtSometimesFilmEnemyRichStrangeArt IsDemocraticMeetingsRich PeopleGood Movie Author:Chantal Akerman
“The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.” ArtLossForgetGoneRichLetting GoArt IsCan't Let GoLetting Things Go Book:A Field Guide to Getting Lost Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.” IfsArtRememberRichArt IsLonelyEmpty Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.” PeopleIfsArtArtistRichArt IsValuableWorthwhile Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman