Artist Quotes/Quotes on Art

[Hermes2020]

This happens to me too and sometimes it's a problem.

Ha, too many ideas can be as bad as no ideas.

 

[laf.art]

Yes, especially when they all start to flow together on one canvas hahah

 

[bob]

Yes, I remember reading about these and wondered whether anyone opened one

Yes , I remember reading somewhere that someone actually opened one of the cans , Visual Artist Bernard Bazile did exactly that in the artwork titled " boite ouverte de piero Manzoni " translated as such .... Opened Can Of Piero Manzoni .

So what was inside the can you may ask ?
a smaller can labeled " merda di artists " .
Bazile didn't open the smaller can so no one knows what's actually inside it ?

possibly manzoni's excrement is inside the smaller can ,
maybe nothing is inside the smaller can or possibly filled with something else .

 

[bob]

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1961 artwork by the Italian Artist
Piero Manzoni .

The work consists of 90 tin cans each reportedly filled with the artists own feces with labels in Italian , French , German & English stating ....

Artist's Shit
Contents 30 gr net
Freshly Preserved
Produced and Tinned
in may 1961 .

as told by a friend of piero manzoni's , the work / cans were meant as an act of defiant mockery of the art world , artists & art criticism

 

[bob]

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to date , the highest price paid for one of Piero Manzoni's cans happened in August 2016 in Milan , Italy where one of the tins sold for a record-breaking pricetag of 275,000$ ( including auction fees )

 

[laf.art]

Just goes to show that some people will buy any old crap haha

 

[Bartc]

Just goes to show that some people will buy any old crap haha

That was precisely his point!

 

[stlukesguild]

 

[Artyczar]

Funny, I've rarely ever been called "talented!"

 

[stlukesguild]

The comment I hear the most is: "I can't even draw a straight line."

I use a ruler.

 

[stlukesguild]

 

[stlukesguild]

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
- Billy Wilder.

 

[Claude J Greengrass]

The comment I hear the most is: "I can't even draw a straight line."

I use a ruler.

I can't even draw a curved line! My Essential Tremors cause it to be very shaky. Drawing a straight line is easier for me as all I have to do is orientate the paper such that the line is at 90° to the axis of my tremor!

 

[Hermes2020]

I am inventing a language that must necessarily burst forth from a very new poetics, that could be defined in a couple of words: Paint, not the thing, but the effect it produces. … the line of poetry in such a case should be composed not of words, but of intentions, and all the words should fade away before the sensation..
Stéphane Mallarmé

I think what Mallarmé' says also applies to the visual arts, specifically abstract and conceptual art.

 

[stlukesguild]

That quote is interesting considering that Mallarmé said the exact opposite to Degas. Degas was trying to write poetry and wasn’t satisfied with the results. Since he had such great ideas, he couldn’t understand what he was doing wrong. “But my dear Degas,” exclaimed Mallarmé, “poems are made of words, not ideas!”

 

[Hermes2020]

Ha, consistency is also not my strong point!

 

[Mississippi Hippie]

I my spouse

An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Ben Shahn

 

[Mississippi Hippie]

“Art is my life. And my life is Art.”
-Yoko Ono

 

[ZenDruid]

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home" - Twyla Tharp, choreographer.

 

[Aspenman]

Use paint like you are a millionaire

My friend Judy Wagner (deceased)