“The entire 'my art is better than your art' thing really gets under my skin. The fact of the matter is: Your art IS better than my art... at being what it is. So what? It just so happens that my art is better than your art, at being what it is.” ArtMatterFactsHappensArt IsSkins Author:Derek R. Audette
“I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.” ThinkingShouldArtMadeFactsSeemsPleasureDespairArt IsContradictionAlways Believe Author:David Hockney
“Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.” ArtFactsQualityArt IsConceptsAttributesOxymoronArticulationSuppositionConceptual Art Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.” MayArtDifferentFactsAbleArt IsCharacteristicsWorks Of ArtDifferent Meanings Book:Art in the seventies Source: Art in the seventies
“If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact, that Art is one thing, another thing Amusement; and that people do like amusements, and will run after it.” PeopleIfsBelieveArtI CanFactsRunningI BelieveEnjoyOne ThingArt IsWorks Of ArtAmusement Author:George Henry Lewes
“The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.” ArtFactsTruthTruth IsArt IsInvitations Author:Ala Bashir
“People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.” PeopleKnowsArtFactsSeemsStrongGrowthKnownArt IsEnglandPressesSpreadLondonAwakeBritainCentreGreat Britain Author:Edward Elgar
“In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind - not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madécasses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.” KnowsWayShouldWritingKindMayHas BeensArtFactsAbleWrittenInfluenceConsciousArt IsShould HaveMadSubtleSignificanceFollowersOverwhelmingAestheticShould Have BeenSchoenberg Author:Maurice Ravel
“The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the beautiful exists for the gratification of an observer, it is independent of him. In this sense music, too, has no aim (object), and the mere fact that this particular art is so closely bound up with our feelings by no means justifies the assumption that its aesthetic principles depend on this union.” LooksMeanArtFactsFeelingsBeautifulEmotionPrinciplesObjectsParticularDependsArt IsAimIndependentRemainsUnionsMereBoundsAssumptionJustifyAestheticObserversGratification Author:Eduard Hanslick
“Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.” KindArtFactsArt IsBoundsDescriptionExhaustedModernismConceptual Art Author:Alexander Stoddart