Bob Dylan about great oil paintings in museums - ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com
“Art critics are just spectators who say what they think,” he said. “If I were an artist, wouldn’t it be truly dreadful if nothing were said about what I did? Don’t things live not just by direct experience of them but by rumor, discussion, argument, and fantasy?”
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
“The reviewer’s tacit assumption that sketchy paintings were unfinished paintings shows a reluctance to accept that a finished work was not necessarily one that had been painstakingly worked up to a high state of polished detail. Nevertheless, what is new is the insistence on the right of an artist to show experimental work in public, as well as
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