“You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.” WorldHappensSpaceViewsObjectsStillnessCollapseViewers Author:Frederick Lenz
“Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.” WritingDoeLife IsLyingEnergyObjectsDrawsCellsInstantShockViewersBoldnessAnticipateExhibits Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.” MomentsAbilityRoomsObjectsPaintingPresent MomentViewersKnocking Author:Joe Bradley
“I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.” SpaceRoomsDesignObjectsBuildingAimInteractionViewersFurnitureSkylines Author:Gae Aulenti
“Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.” HumansLooksRealityRunningPositionObjectsSafeIllusionMachinesDistancePerceiveCinemaTiesAppropriateChairsTiedViewersAllegoryTies That Bind Author:Slavoj Žižek
“Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.” ArtObjectsBasesObjectivesWorks Of ArtRepresentativesViewersSpectatorsTransactionsPostmodernism Author:Arnold Aronson
“When a sudden ray of sun or a moonbeam falls on a dreary street, it makes no difference what it illumines-a broken bottle on the ground, a fading flower in a field, or the flaxen blonde hair of a child's head. The object is transformed and the viewer is transfixed. Celebrate that moment of beauty and take it with you in your memory. It is God's gift to you.” ChildrenMomentsFallDifferencesMemoriesBeautySunStreetsFieldsObjectsFlowerHairBrokenCelebrateThat MomentBottlesRaysTransformedViewersOur MemoriesBlondeFadingDrearyBlonde HairMoonbeams Author:Luci Swindoll
“Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience” HumansSelfBodyCoursesLostResultsSupportRecordsObjectsPaintingWallDevelopmentFunctionCamerasSurfaceAriseSoleViewersHuman BodyExpressivePictorialIncorporating Author:Gunter Brus
“[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.” GivingDoePlayBeautifulFormArtistChanceResultsInformationObjectsProduceTasteFunctionAimConclusionMysteriousRememberedOutcomesAvoidingViewersPremisesSubjectivitySerialsClerksPredetermined Author:Sol LeWitt
“I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?” WayTryingProcessAttentionObjectsActivityLosingRelationViewersKeep Trying Author:Uta Barth
“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