Art : (365)

" I’m definitely not proud of some of the stuff I did as a youth, but that’s where my mind-frame was at one point in my life, and I can’t pretend those things didn’t happen. I’m not glorifying them, I’m trying to make them into art. " - Dizzee Rascal

" There’s a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. " - Harold Pinter

" You’re getting everyone’s point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel. " - Michael Ondaatje

" I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks. " - Rachel Kushner

" My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is. " - Robert Mapplethorpe

" Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the ‘China thing.’ " - Arne Glimcher

" I never thought I’d be up against Salvador Dali and Roy Disney. " - Bud Luckey

" My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They’re also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there’s an inner intelligence or logic. " - Caio Fonseca

" Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement. " - Kehinde Wiley

" Art is all a matter of personality. " - Marcel Duchamp