“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.
