art quote – Barlow 4.8.2021

Art is full of ambiguity. Our response is often undefined, unexpected and perplexing. Being willing to embrace the mystery—and to do so outside the domain of language—frees a viewer to experience the work without any explanation or validation. That personal response can frequently link directly to the thrill of being intimately enthralled.Deborah Barlow, http://www.slowmuse.com/2021/03/04/intimately-enthralled

art quote – Doctor 1.14.2021

The creative life is not a straight line. There is no map for making, only an orientation. It’s a poetic, unpredictable spiral. It’s the discipline of returning to the same practices again and again, regardless of circumstance. No matter how flourishing your life as a maker is, or how successful you are, you don’t ever …

art quote – Le Guin 11.5.2020

Art isn't explanation. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains. (Or so it seems to me, which is why I have a problem with the kind of modern museum art that involves reading what the artist says about a work in order to find out why one should look at it …

art quote – Chamberlain 8.27.2020

Art is a particular madness where you are using a means of communication, which means are recognizable to other people, to say something that they hadn’t heard, or hadn’t perceived, or had repressed. Curiously, it’s only recently that I’ve noticed that I’m still making sculptures in the way that I made the poems. It’s all …

art quote – gallenter

"Art isn’t merely a luxury hobby for rich gallery patrons, it’s a fundamental part of all human cultures, which has been with us as a species since at least the beginning of recorded history. The purpose of art is to draw our attention to that which is beyond our own individual experience. Storytelling lets us …

art quote – Sixx 6.13.2019

"It’s 100% true that one of the most exciting things you can do is try something new. It’s one of the most exciting things you can do in life. After you’ve done something thousands of times you become better at it and ideally you get some great joy in doing it. Maybe you’re able to get your ideas …

art quote – Watts 4.25.2019

“For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones — for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace …

art quote – oyler 2.28.2019

There are many noncomprehensive adjectives we can apply to good art: moving, clever, joyous, sad, innovative, boring, political. But good art doesn’t have to be any of these things, necessarily; what we want out of it is possibility. -Lauren Oyler

art quote – Campos-Pons 2.7.2019

"I always tell my students in every class: We are here because of art. We are sitting in this room talking and sharing because of art, but not just because this is an art class. We are here as humans because art is our safe keeper. Our destiny keeper. The landscape of our journey. We are …

art quote – Shaw 12.20.2018

"James Joyce used to use a fancy phrase for this: he calls it “aesthetic arrest.” And all aesthetic arrest actually means is, what are those one or two images that have utterly claimed your heart—claimed beyond thought, claimed beyond the temporary fashions of culture? And you are just forever in love with two or three …