If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn’t too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything. 1.71K
It’s great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years. 682
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. 627
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. 1.37K
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. 676
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created. 740
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. 611
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. 946
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. 662
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools – only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art. 766
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. 2.23K
The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world’s eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land. 733
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. 687
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. 1.19K
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. 709
Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator. 2.1K
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement. 711
