“I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.” ThinkingArtWholeSuccessfulArt IsBeing SuccessfulBeneficial Author:Isaiah Mustafa
“One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.” PeopleIfsLooksKindArtStillsCultureForgetSuccessfulFrontsFieldsArt IsStandingContemporarySaneEngaging Author:Tino Sehgal
“Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get repeated. By natural selection and then through repetition they become probable, more habitual.” ArtIdeasFormNaturalSuccessfulArt IsInstinctVery GoodGood IdeasRepetitionSelectionNatural SelectionHabitual Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.” WorldArtSuccessfulArt IsVisibleVisionariesTruestEloquentFusion Author:Edward Betts
“The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.” ArtSuccessfulArt IsSequenceTransgression Book:A Susan Sontag reader Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“When movies tend to start to preach to me, I tend to shut them off, whether I agree with the message or not. I don't think the job of art is to preach, I think it's to ask questions and make people aware of differences and different ways of looking at things. That's what I want to do, anyway. Whether I'm successful or not, that's up to history.” PeopleThinkingWayWantArtDifferentJobsAsksDifferencesSuccessfulMessagesArt IsAgreeDifferent Ways Author:Nick Damici
“ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are no expamples of art, nor good reasons to think that it will ever exist. (Everything that has been made has been made with a purpose, teverything with an end exists outside of that thing, i.e., "I want to sell this", or "I want this to make me famous and loved", or "I want this to make me whole", or worse, "I want this to make others whole.") And yet we continue to write, paint, sculpt and compose. Is this foolish of us?” ThinkingWantWritingHas BeensArtMadeEndsReasonWholePurposeSuccessfulProductsArt IsSellsPaintFoolishWorks Of Art Author:Jonathan Safran Foer