ARTIST QUOTE: GEORG BASELITZ
Anyone who’s had a serious go at painting can recognise him or herself in these words: the idea in your head that you think is an image but isn’t, the fight against the image you are actually capable of producing… and then the coming to terms with what you produced and how it relates...
ARTIST QUOTE: SOL LEWITT
This quote is from a letter that Sol Lewitt wrote to Eva Hesse who must have being going through difficult times in her work. It’s got to be the best advice anyone has ever given an artist in peril, and I only wish I had come across it sooner. “Just stop thinking,...
ARTIST QUOTE: GERHARD RICHTER
The way art and art theory relate to each other is complex and sometimes artificial. I often have the feeling that a complete divorce has taken place, and that it’s time for art theory to move out and get a flat of its own. I was thrilled to find the following words by...
ARTIST QUOTE: PHILIP GUSTON
Some truths about painting stated here by Philip Guston with very little beating about the bush: “No good to paint in the head – what happens is what happens when you put the paint down – you can only hope that you are alert – ready – to see. What joy it is...
ARTIST QUOTE: ALAN DAVIE
This quote is great in the way it struggles to nail that sense of being so close to what you want, never actually getting there, but gaining something else on the way. “When I am working, I am aware of a striving, a yearning, the making of many impossible attempts at a...
ARTIST QUOTE: FRANK STELLA
Frank Stella’s “What you see is what you see” has become an everyday expression in the art world, but I was wondering how many people have actually read it in its wider context: “My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there. It really is an...
ARTIST QUOTE: MONA HATOUM
“What I like about performance is that the work is impermanent and the emphasis is in the communication and direct rapport or interaction with the audience without the mediation of an art object. Afterwards, it’s all dismantled and all that remains is a memory in the mind of the spectator. This is how things...
ARTIST QUOTE: GAO XINGJIAN
Gao Xingjian executing a splash-ink painting. Image: www.mclc.osu.edu _ “In order to create a pictorial space on a two-dimensional surface two different directions can be followed; the first consists of recreating real space, with perspective for example, to create the illusion of a third dimension; the other consists of admitting that the surface is flat,...
ARTIST QUOTE: DAVID HOCKNEY
“I’ve always complained that the trouble with a lot of modern painting is that it is not interested in the visible world. That simply means that artists must go in on themselves, and their art becomes an internal one. This is okay but it can be merely therapeutic, and then it moves out of the...
RICHARD SERRA: VERB LISTS / LISTAS DE VERBOS
In this short interview filmed in 2000 Richard Serra speaks about his famous “verb lists” of the late 1960′s; a creative strategy that allowed him to conceptualise actions and processes he could later to apply to lead and steel En esta corta entrevista filmada...
ARTIST QUOTE: JONATHAN LASKER
“I often think of my paintings as a form of image kit or perhaps as jigsaw puzzles, which offer components of paintings as clues pointing the viewer, not to a finished narrative (as when the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle completes the picture of Notre Dame), but rather to a self-awareness of how...
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