Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper"

Donald Judd, Artist

"I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once"

Donald Judd, Artist

"I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity"

Donald Judd, Artist

"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass"

Walter Pater, Critic

"They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense"

Donald Judd, Artist

"Pollock looks unusual and radical even now"

Donald Judd, Artist

"I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated"

Donald Judd, Artist

"I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does"

Donald Judd, Artist

"And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman"

Donald Judd, Artist

"It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times"

Richard Rogers, Architect

"Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim"

Donald Judd, Artist

"There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for"

Donald Judd, Artist

"Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most"

Uta Hagen, Actress

"For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake"

Walter Pater, Critic

"And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object"

Walter Pater, Critic

"You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn't something I ever seriously considered"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"A work of art, when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects"

Walter Pater, Critic

"The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art!"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"To possess taste, one must have some soul"

Luc de Clapiers, Writer

"Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

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