Carley
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Carley
... See moreTaste is an abstract, ineffable, unstable thing. A listener to music or reader cannot truly tell if they will enjoy something before they experience it; pleasure in a piece of art is never guaranteed. So when encountering an artwork, we immediately evaluate it by some set of mental principles, and, hopefully, find the beauty in it, feel affirmed,
Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that reminds people you exist.
Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is today. It’s what people discover via search. It’s what spreads slowly but surely, building fans over time.
Tom Critchlow • Building a Digital Garden
Interesting concept
I want to start digital gardening, I’m not sure how to do it, practically.
Defamiliarization, as I imagine it, is what every artist strives for. You take what people think they see or know and make them see it or know it afresh.
Janet Malcolm • Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
Interesting Concept
In the years that followed, she became increasingly interested in using fabrics in her work. She was attracted to their look and feel, but also to the history of textiles as an undervalued form of women’s labour and artistic expression – particularly as so many women were denied access to other mediums for so many centuries.
Ferren Gipson • Women's Work: From feminine arts to feminist art
Art Quotes and Fiber Art
About the reason behind textile art, it being considered associated with women and reclaiming it. That is one reason why I myself do fiber arts
the artist’s responsibility to society, especially during dark times, was to preserve, nurture, and glorify the human spirit.
Mary Gabriel • Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art (LITTLE, BROWN A)
Art serves a social function not unlike religion.
Mary Gabriel • Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art (LITTLE, BROWN A)
In the absence of objective or universal criteria for evaluating their work, ambivalence, excitement, and boredom serve as fulcrums for aesthetic judgment.
Hannah Wohl • Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged
It’s tempting to think of art as outside of our practical needs: art does not hold up walls or keep us warm; it derives its value from our perceptions of it. It exists to prove we are capable of appreciating things beyond their practicality. We can see again how it is directly opposed to the inherent efficiency of money: if art were so crass as to
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