Art Quotes

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

part of the point of sharing art is to give people something that cannot properly be valued.

But if the point of art is to know ourselves, and the point of an artist is to make art, we’d better know what money has done to us.

The drive to create still stands outside of money: people will squeeze it into the cracks of their lives, sacrifice comfort or even necessity, fight and claw and carve out time to make something, to share their understanding of the world. They shouldn’t have to, but goddammit, they do.

Yet artists have never lost their power to create transcendent things. Every society’s art that we can still access vibrates intensely through the human experience. We are still creating things that can fundamentally alter people’s lives, shake the core of their understanding, rewrite their entire personhood.

Time spent thinking about art is time spent wondering what it really feels like to be you.

on and creates the context of the world around it. Art of any kind endures because it captures some understanding, some piece of the world, so purely that it becomes a piece of the world itself.

In the absence of objective or universal criteria for evaluating their work, ambivalence, excitement, and boredom serve as fulcrums for aesthetic judgment.