Quotessence
Home / Topics / Derrick Quotes

Derrick Quotes

Browse 7 quotes about Derrick.

Derrick Quotes

“Deconstruction seeks neither to reframe art with some perfect, apt and truthful new frame, nor simply to maintain the illusion of some pure and simple absence of a frame. Rather it shows that the frame is, in a sense, also inside the painting. For the frame is what "produces" the object of art, is what sets it off as an object of art—an aesthetic object. Thus the frame is essential to the work of art; in the work of art. Paint a $5,000 abstract painting on a railroad boxcar and nobody will pay a cent for it. Take a torch, remove the panel of the boxcar, install it in a gallery, and it will be worth $5,000. It will be art because it is now framed by the gallery. But at the same moment that the frame encloses the work in its own protected enclosure, making it a work of art, it becomes merely ornamental—external to the work of art. Thus is the frame central or marginal? Is the frame inside the work of art, essential to it, or outside the work of art, extrinsic to it?”

PostmodernismDeconstructionDerrickThe Truth In Painting
Book:Derrida for Beginners
Create image

“Yeah, I would. I'm not saying every day is sunshine and kittens, but Exy's gotta be fun. When it stops being that and starts being a tiresome thing I'm forced to do, then it's time for me to walk away. I mean, right now, I don't have a choice. On account of my scholarship and whatnot. But after I graduate? If I hadn't come back around to enjoying it again, I'd drop it like a hotcake and find something new to chase. Life's too short to be miserable all the time.”

Jean MoreauDerrick
Author:Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven
Create image