“The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.” ArtObjectsExpressionProveFindingsArt IsInfiniteRealmsRepresentationSublimeFittingProve It Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.” WayMeanArtProblemSituationModernFindingsApproachArt IsPainfulFixedNew WaysDefiniteExpress YourselfBourgeoisModernismModern ArtPainful Situations Book:Bourgeois Source: Bourgeois
“What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction.” ArtLanguageWrittenParticularFindingsArt IsOccasionsPoetry IsMarvelousAdequateDysfunction Author:Adrienne Rich
“My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.” ArtTermFindingsArt IsUglyRealismThesisUgly Truth Author:Nikki Jean