Art Quotes
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.
David Berry • How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
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.
David Berry • How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
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.
David Berry • How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
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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... 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,
FEEDBACK
Get a lot of feedback as you are making your art. Until others see your work and understand your ideas, your job as an artist is only half-complete. Artwork is both an object and an activity; art exists between its maker and its audience. The art object goes out from the artist to the audience, who, by their active looking, experience it as
... See moreArt 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)
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
part of the point of sharing art is to give people something that cannot properly be valued.
David Berry • How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
What does the author mean by valued? I mean art is tricky to assign a value to, it really depends on who is doing the valuing. One person's trash is another's treasure after all.