“I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.” ThinkingKnowsMeanArtArtistQualityGreatnessPaintingEssentialsDimensionsWorks Of ArtMotivatedGreat Work Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007 Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.” IfsKindArtDifferentArtistStudyGeniusWorks Of ArtGreat WorkSelf Absorbed Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic
“An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.” MenYearsMayArtDoneWholeShowsArtistUnderstandingHalfOne DayPaperDrawsLaborCarefulPensSheetsSmall ThingsGreat WorkGreat PowerWhole Year Author:Albrecht Durer