“To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.” ArtArtistStreetsCenturyExpressionWallMessagesArt IsFreedom Of ExpressionOccupy Wall Street Author:Peter M. Brant
“For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each artist contributing to the next generation's advancement. I wanted to go a step further and extend the boundaries.” Has BeensArtRealityWantedArtistNextStepsGenerationsCenturyArt IsDiscoveryBoundariesDataVisualsExplorationNext GenerationAdvancementContributing Book:Breaking the rules: Audrey Flack, a retrospective 1950-1990 Source: Breaking the rules: Audrey Flack, a retrospective 1950-1990
“The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous term) for breadth and depth of learning in the world history of art and thought... Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion. This is one of the primary reasons for the dullness and ineptitude of so much twentieth-criticism, as compared to nineteenth-century belles-lettres.” WorldArtReasonProblemTodayTermNumbersCenturyStudentsArt IsTraditionCriticismDepthAncientIgnorantPrimariesProfessorsWorld HistoryTheoreticalExpertiseDistortionNineteenth CenturyAcademiaSophisticationBreadthInterconnectedDullnessIneptitude Author:Camille Paglia
“Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.” FirstsArtBigsAttentionCenturyArt IsAdvantageTwentiesEmbraceUniversityWittyArguingRadicalTwentieth CenturyAlliancesAssessmentProvocativePatronPatronizing Author:Peggy Phelan
“The meeting of science and art is definitely interesting for the 21st century, and I think to use scientific expertise and knowledge to preserve an artistic statement is very interesting. It takes things a step further.” ThinkingArtUseInterestingStepsCenturyArt IsMeetingsStatementsArtisticPreserves21st CenturyVery InterestingExpertiseArt And Science Author:Marc Quinn
“I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book, you don't know who reads it. But every line, I write a million people, they read it, and then they insult me, they love me, they discuss, they give an opinion instantly, immediately. They are completely in communication, immediately. That is a real art.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingWritingArtBookRealLiteratureLinesOpinionMillionsCenturyCommunicationArt IsIncrediblesInsult21st Century Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.” ArtInspirationWaterCenturyArt IsRemainsCellsChineseTriumphTorture20th CenturyDrowningDemonstrationIconsHelplessnessPrimalDisorientationHoudiniPrimal Fear Author:Criss Angel
“When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good, but not quite professional yet. But, I like the writing." I've been a writer for almost a half a century. It's very cool.” GivingWritingArtStoriesHalfWrittenCenturyDrawsArt IsSampleVery CoolHalf A Century Author:Len Wein