“Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Images are it's only wealth. It does not classify objects, it does not pronounce them real or imaginary, does not qualify them does not define them; it feels and presents them.” FeelsDoeArtRealImaginationWealthObjectsArt IsImaginary Author:Benedetto Croce
“Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation.” ArtFeelingsInspirationFormAbilityObjectsArt IsCommunicateObjectivesInterpretationIsolatedSubjectiveAbility To CommunicateIncubation Author:Sylvester Stallone
“The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.” MindArtObjectsProductsFitInventionCollaborationCanvasGridsHomemade Book:Living by Fiction Source: Living by Fiction
“When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power is contained in his flame, and the sensitive paper absorbed by degrees the blackness cut out of some ordinary object. He had invented a fresh and tender flash of lightning.” WellsArtCuttingObjectsDegreesPaperOrdinaryPhotographerFlamesSensitiveCandleFlashLightningLitBlackness Author:Tristan Tzara
“We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.” FeelsArtLevelsEmotionObjectsRemainsPhotographerPhotographLinkedDomainSouvenirsPersonal History Author:Chris Marker
“By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.” HeartArtMadeSelfWholePossibilityObjectsExpressionPhotographyConceptsOriginalsIndividualityCopiesAestheticOriginalityGesturesUniquenessStereotypeRepetitionSelf ExpressionExposingMultiplicityCoherence Author:Rosalind E. Krauss
“Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work; the viewer has to come up with the rest, and it is by empowering the viewer that the miracle of art gains its force.” DoeArtMatterArtistForceBitsDarkHalfObjectsGainsMiracleCome UpEmpoweringViewers Author:Vik Muniz
“Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by reproducing with mathematical precision the form and effect of objects and even that poetry which at once arises from any harmonious combination.” MeanDoeArtFormArtistEffectsFieldsObjectsPhotographyAriseMathematicalCombinationExecutionUniformsRapidsHarmoniousPrecisionBarrenReproducing Author:Charles Negre
“But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation.” ArtFormSimpleObjectsTestsContemplationWorks Of ArtCategoriesRealisticPersistIdealismIdealistic Author:Herbert Read
“The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.” ArtWholeHappensEyeBeautifulArtistSubjectsEventsObjectsRelationBeautiful WomenBeholderEye Of The BeholderBeauty Is In The Eye Of The BeholderBeautiful Objects Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“People think, "Wow, people in America have so much money, they're sending hundreds of pencils to this guy." I don't think those people realize that most people who are buying these pencils are buying them as art objects or conversation pieces.” PeopleThinkingArtAmericaGuyRealizingPiecesObjectsConversationBuyingWowPencilsThis Guy Author:David Rees
“I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with others. Create more pleasure, and object to despair. Really it's about that. A space where we can be less aggressed upon.” PeopleKnowsWantArtSpacePleasureShareObjectsDespairPerceptionArt IsPalestinianBetter Life Author:Elia Suleiman
“The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good work here, but much of what’s on view is actually more about obsession and repetition: a couch made out of 3,500 quarters, a necklace composed of 100 handgun triggers. The building, too, seems caught between wanting to be an object of decorative delectation and making an architectural statement.” ArtMadeShowsSeemsArtistViewsDesignObjectsBuildingMaterialsOrdinaryCaughtHumbleStatementsObsessionSupposed To BeMuseumsUnusualQuartersGood WorkRepetitionTriggersCouchesDebutNecklacesHandgunsReuse Author:Jerry Saltz
“In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I don't mean it as a term of praise: these cabinets of curiousities contained specific sorts of objects - maps, skulls (as memento mori), works of art, stuffed animals, natural history samples, and books - and Open City actually contains many of the same sort of objects. So, I don't think it's as simple as literary inclusiveness.” ThinkingKindMeanLittlesArtBookTermNaturalSimpleAnimalRoomsCitiesObjectsPraiseMapsWorks Of ArtScholarRenaissanceSkullsCabinetsSampleNatural HistoryMemento MoriMementoInclusivenessCuriousityStuffed AnimalBrics Author:Teju Cole
“There are people who speculate at objects. I don't think that makes them evil or not evil. It doesn't matter; in order to speculate, it has to be made public. Once it's made public, it's functioned is art.” PeopleThinkingArtMadeMatterOrderEvilObjects Author:Lawrence Weiner
“I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred to over and over. So the idea of the space between two things was sort of interesting to me.” PersonsArtTwoIdeasSpaceInterestingObjectsTwo ThingsSpace Between Author:Robert Barry
“A text makes the word more specific. It really kind of defines it within the context in which it is being used. If it is just taken out of a context and presented as a sort of object, which is what - you know, which is a contemporary art idea, you know. It is like an old surrealist idea or an old cubist idea to take something out of context and put it in a completely different context. And it sort of gives it a different meaning and creates another world, another kind of world in which we enter.” IfsKnowsWorldGivingKindArtIdeasDifferentUsedTakenObjectsContemporaryAnother WorldContemporary ArtOf ContextSurrealistDifferent Meanings Author:Robert Barry
“Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.” ArtWholeRealityObjectsPaintingArt IsLandscapeOperaSculptureVansComposingWagner Author:Paul Virilio
“To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real.” ArtStillsRealWholeRealityTechnologyPossibilityObjectsPaintSubstitutesEngineersLemonsVirtual RealityElectronicsStill LifePears Author:Paul Virilio
“The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman. These things do not come near it - the experience of beauty, the event of beauty. The anxiety about it is what makes it such a central concern of culture and makes us so interested in it.” ArtWholeHappensEyeBeautifulArtistCultureSubjectsEventsObjectsAnxietyConcernRelationBeautiful WomenBeholderEye Of The BeholderBeauty Is In The Eye Of The BeholderBeautiful Objects Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.” ArtDifferentObjectsMore TimeArt HistoryHistory And Art Author:Jeff Koons
“I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.” TryingFirstsArtImportantObjectsPhotographyPhotographerPhotograph Author:Jacques-Henri Lartigue