„To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed about the concept of "art]. What one person considers to be "art" is often not "art" to another. "Beautiful" and "ugly" are old-fashioned concepts that are seldom applied these days; perhaps justifiably, who knows? Something repulsive, which gives you a moral hangover, and hurts your ears or eyes, may well be art. Only "kitsch" is not art — we're all agreed about that. Indeed, but what is "kitsch?"“
If only I knew!
1950's, On Being a Graphic Artist', 1953
Maurits Cornelis Escher6
incisore e grafico olandese 1898 - 1972Citazioni simili
— Henry Flynt American musician 1940
Henry Flynt: "Essay: Concept Art." (1961) In: La Monte Young (ed.) An Anthology, 1963.
„The boundary between art and kitsch was negotiable, even porous.“
— Alastair Reynolds, libro Blue Remembered Earth
Origine: Blue Remembered Earth (2012), Chapter 7 (p. 162)
— Ken Wilber American writer and public speaker 1949
Why Do Religions Teach Love and Yet Cause So Much War?
Contesto: If you are talking to me about your new car, you are the first person, I am the second person, and the car is the third person.
These pronouns actually represent three perspectives that human beings can take when they talk about the world or attempt to know the world... The fascinating part is that these three perspectives might actually give rise to art, morals, and science. Or the Beautiful, the Good, and the True: the Beauty that is in the eye (or the "I") of the beholder; the Good or moral actions that can exist between you and me as a "we"; and the objective Truth about third-person objects (or "its") that you and I might discover: hence, art ("I"), morals ("we"), and science ("it").
— Peter Greenaway British film director 1942
"105 Years of Illustrated Text" in the Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 5 No. 1.
105 Years of Illustrated Text
— Ad Reinhardt American painter 1913 - 1967
Quote of Ad Reinhardt (1963); as cited in: Joseph Kosuth, (1969), " Art after Philosophy http://www.ubu.com/papers/kosuth_philosophy.html"
1956 - 1967
Variante: The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art as art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art.
— Gronk (artist) American artist 1954
On making beautiful artwork in “Gronk by Marisela Norte” https://bombmagazine.org/articles/gronk/ in BOMB Magazine (2007 Jan 1)
— Cesare Pavese Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908 - 1950
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
„Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.“
— Don DeLillo, Running Dog
Origine: Running Dog
— Damien Hirst artist 1965
Origine: Elizabeth Day Damien Hirst: 'Art is childish and childlike' http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2010/sep/26/damien-hirst-art, The Guardian, 26 September 2010
— Paul Klee German Swiss painter 1879 - 1940
Diary entry (December 1905), # 733, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968
1903 - 1910
— George Sand French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin 1804 - 1876
L'art pour l'art est un vain mot. L'art pour le vrai, l'art pour le beau et le bon, voilà la religion que je cherche....
Letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean, (19 April 1872), published in Calmann Lévy (ed.) Correspondance (1812-1876). Eng. Transl by Raphaël Ledos de Beaufort in Letters of George Sand Vol. III, p. 242
— Morrissey English singer 1959
Interview at a concert (RPLA - whose singer James Maker is a friend of Morrisseys)
About the Notre Dame fire, Odds & Ends
— Germaine Greer, The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work
Origine: The Obstacle Race (1979), Chapter V: Dimension (p. 105)
— Carl Andre American artist 1935
Origine: Artists talks 1969 – 1977, p. 14
— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969
Regarding his latest art exhibition, as quoted in The Age http://www.theage.com.au/ (30 June 2010).
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