1523 Artists Quotes for You to Enjoy

Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape. Jenna Wortham

Work Political Long Awareness Our Introspection Economic Forces Cultural Current Artists Urged Creating Landscape

If anything, Twitter helps me read about perspectives outside of mainstream media and learn about new authors, artists, and ideas that I don't always get exposed to in my regular media diet. Jenna Wortham

Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would. Jennifer Damiano

Love Amazing Girl Those Would Could Write Songs Like Most Sure Female Female Artists Any Quite Artists Them Younger Themselves If I Could Really Cool Ever Apple

There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue. Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Me You People School Gender Kids Brought Never Baffling Along Know Female Issue Go Been Lot Up Wonder Did Artists Where Story Asking Really Thing

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists. Jenny Holzer

Painting Other Otherwise Unless Worrying See Slowly About Detest Seldom Put Stuff Testing Up Quickly Artists Things

I think when you get into your 30s, you start to realize all of the patterns you have in your life and all of the stuff that you're avoiding. It's a terribly unsung period in people's lives. I can't think about many artists who have sung about it, because it's so not sexy. Jens Lekman

I've always gotten along best with artists. Jerry Hall

Best Along Always Gotten Artists

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in. Jerry Saltz

Work Art Made Late Seventies Similar Both Exhibit Began Artists Size Wanted Spaces Galleries Worked Who Growing Number

There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot. Jerry Saltz

I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness. Jerry Saltz

Interior Long Guided Out Gigantic Bored See Determined Voices Pushing Over New Leaving Behind Artists Tunnel Galleries Us Bringing

I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy. Jerry Saltz

Life You Balance Happy Energy Pay Month Adds Collectors Critics See Only Feel Like Occasionally Around Fiscal Yelling Going Often Artists Where Bills Shows Each Keep Palaces Cope

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting. Jerry Saltz

Matter Francis Francis Bacon Those Bacon Criticize Sexist Joseph Putting Nobody Calls Female Female Artists Opinions Limiting Subject Subject Matter Itself Artists

Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years? Jerry Saltz

Yourself Living Lasted Other Distinguish Raphael High Only Put Town Renaissance Italian Years Italy Up-And-Coming Wonder Michelangelo Trying Any Artist Artists Leonardo Your Now Imagine Position

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did. Jerry Saltz

Strange Better Space Few Between Contemporary Than Did Artists Ordinary

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women. Jerry Saltz

Good Women Money Argument Other Claims Out Window Allowed Prospects House Because Female Female Artists Women Are Goes Artists Flies

In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned. Jerry Saltz

Time Culture Money Watergate Group Other Market Everything Seventies Visual Seized Except Had No-One Attention Questioned America American Artists Being Happened Reproduction Apart Vietnam Means Production Paying

Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled. Jerry Saltz

Sometimes Understanding Own Others Took Waves Out Paradoxical Perceptual Crucial Idea Pictures Existence Irony Artists Where Staged Places Them Cut Then Created Separately Viewer Original Filled Copied Image Images

Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want. Jerry Saltz

Art Good News Money Will Good News Made Poverty Style Experiment Think Virtues Ruled Consistent Out Able About Emerging No-One Almost Since Like Got Lot Selling Brand Artists Want While Much Turning Creating Good Art Hardship

The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines. Jerry Saltz

Good People Revolution Ways Paradigm Relic Bad Magazines About Bearing Write Wrong Wrote Still Exhibitions Years Years Ago Versus Very Same Often Artists Sixties Them Who Right Present

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