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Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale. (Abe Ajay)
I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air. (Josef Albers)
I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects. (Arman)
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. (Francis Bacon)
-talking about contemporary art...
Shellac it, and send it to Rona. (Chris Bohnert)
Contrary to the artistic expressions that characterize the world of art as we have known for a millennium, contemporary art has reached a hermetic language that requires constant translation from the pompous words of screwed critics. (Vittorio Canta)
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. (Donald Judd)
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements. (Barbara Kruger)
The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want. (Michael Scott)
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. (Michael Scott)
That contemporary art be considered as classic and enduring can only be judged by future generations. (Ian Semple)
I didn't want to make "high" art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity. (Cindy Sherman)
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. (Gertrude Stein)
Some people view the contemporary art scene with fear and desperation because there is so much crap. We, however, rejoice because we think it is funny. (Billy Childish and Charles Thomson)
Art has to have meaning and emotional resonance. Contemporary exhibits of conceptual installation, video work etc. have neither. I leave them with my life depleted rather than enhanced. (Charles Thomson)
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