Inspirational quotes from the media 2.1.09, updated 11.4.09
"Banks fall over, art triumphs," said Simon Rosenthal, the long- term head of exhibitions at London's Royal Academy.
”Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Pablo Picasso.
”I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.”
Pablo Picasso.
”The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”
Pablo Picasso.
"I paint forms as I think them, not as I see them."
Pablo Picasso.
"I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso"
Diego Riviera
"I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on."
Mark Rothko
"It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing."
Mark Rothko
"I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious"
Andrew Wyeth
”An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict. As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge. His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.”
Bridget Riley.
"I disklike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering."
Robert Motherwell
"Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another"
Jim Dine
"In Tokyo last month I walked into a shop pretty much at random. It was full of Japanese handicraft, and inside one particular glass cabinet I saw a mug. It was a handmade of black clay with a white glaze and it was rather beautiful. I picked it up, looked at the price - the equivalent of nearly £30 - and put it down again. Nice, but too much for a mug, I thought. Several minutes and two streets later, on my way to an appointment and too late to turn back, that mug started to work on me. At first, it was the way the dark clay resonated behind the milky glaze. Then, the
uneven surface and the gentle warp. The base was not circular, the handle not perpendicular. Eloquently imperfect, the mug lingered with me. My own are factory-made, smooth and mute. How much I would rather have that one than all of mine.
Our notion of value for money is, naturally, set by our own social conditioning. But sometimes our limits are arbitrary. We don't always see the perfect thing when we need it, but when we see the perfect thing it's worth probing those limits. I'm convinced that the only way forward for us as a consumer society is
to buy fewer things that we value more."
Justin Mcgirk, Icon magazine, January 2009
"....on a larger scale the tricky thing is to balance (this) fundamental human requirement for occaisional indulgence with budgets, issues of sustainability and the creed of quality over quantity (i.e. buying less but better)..."
Michelle Ogundehn, Elle Decoration, january 2009
