“Real art doesn’t have a message, doesn’t necessarily say anything. It is an arrangement of shapes, a pattern of words. If you want an antidote to this idea of art, watch Bob Dylan manically arranging and rearranging words on a shop sign he and the band spotted one day. That is art.”
“Impressionism was the name given to a certain form of observation when #Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).”
JohnSingerSargent The Black Brook c.1908 Oil paint on canvas 552 × 698 mm
“The powerhouse Blum gallery, which has locations in Los Angeles and Tokyo, and which planned to open a new New York space this fall, has laid off most of its staff and plans to cease brick-and-mortar operations.”
“There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn’t make any money. That’s what I thought success was.” — Robert Longo
“Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It’s really not about other people’s needs and assumptions. I’m not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.”
“Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It’s really not about other people’s needs and assumptions. I’m not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.”
Richard Serra (b. 1938, San Francisco) Strike: To Roberta and Rudy 1969–71 Hot-rolled steel 8 ft 1 in x 24 ft x 1 ½ in Guggenheim Museum, New York
Years of study, decades of creation—still invisible. Yet someone with no training, no background, and one NFT can be crowned a genius, while the professional artist collects dust—on their portfolio.
