Richard Serra (1938-)
“Double Rift #9 & #10” (2013)
“Once you find that you are not using paint for its illusionistic capabilities or its color refraction but as a material that happens to be “red,” you can use any material as equally relevant.”
-Richard Serra
“Untitled (URODA)” (2015)
Ursula von Rydingsvard (1942-)
“The words that are associated with what I am looking at, are really words that are like some sort of traffic light that tells me something like; "be a little cautious about this one," or "go for this one." ”
-Ursula von Rydingsvard
“Untitled (Blot)” (2014)
Kerry James Marshall (1955-)
“I think we need to remember… that a lot of energy was put into changing things to get us to the point where we are now. But being where we are now doesn’t mean that we don’t have to put in the same kind of energy to get us to a place where we ought to be…”
-Kerry James Marshall
“Ten Possible Links” (2014)
“Drawing is very central to the way that I work because it can be blown up and taken apart… You can just keep pushing it, like this infinite machine.”
-Matthew Ritchie
“Mizusashi” (ca.1945)
Shoji Hamada (1894-1978)
“When you climb a mountain, it is as much the mountain that lifts you as your legs.”
-Shoji Hamada
Ross Blackener (1949-)
“Loss, No. 1” (1995)
“I think of making paintings in a way, like writing a book: I go from chapter to chapter. For me painting is thematic, not formal (in the sense of taking a single image and refining it) - although that of course is part of painting too. I think all painting has to do with a kind of libidinal energy. That relationship between what goes on consciously and what goes on unconsciously is often reflected in the way life becomes manifest in a painting.”
“Virginia Partridge” (1829)
“Hopes, are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns…”
-John James Audubon (1785-1851)
“Tiger and Snake” (1862)
“What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
-Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)
“Over Ten Thousand Individual Works” (1988)
“We have a hard time coming to terms with huge numbers. When we think of a huge number of objects, it’s comforting to imagine they’re all alike. But to imagine a huge number as all different—to think of a people we’re at war with for instance, as all unique individuals—is painful. To make distinctions among huge quantities of things we’ve been thinking are the same, to suddenly have to look at them as unique—this is a painful disruption of our way of perceiving the world…”
-Allan McCollum (1944)
VINCENT VAN GOGH
“Night Cafe”, (1888)
“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.”
-Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
-Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Gregory Crewsdon
“Flower Pile” (2001)
“Flower Pile” (2001)
“It’s very hard to describe what I’m looking for—something that feels both familiar and strange at the same time. It’s not enough for it just to be strange or mysterious, it also has to feel very ordinary, very familiar, and very nondescript.”
“Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story
in pictures…”
-Gregory Crewdson (1962-)
“My work arises from that fact that while I critique the establishment I also want to become part of it as well. So it’s not as disparaging as people might think—I’m not suggesting that I don’t want the best of the West. I want those things. That’s why I took on the alter ego of the dandy in my work, because he’s a character who is both an outsider who is trying to gain access to the establishment as well as an insider. I think these traits are reflected in my own life within the art world, that I’m the outsider who wants to be on the inside. ”
-Yinka Shonibare (1962-)
“Butterfly Kid”, (2015)
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