Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other... →
Patti Smith
You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.
Roberta Smith
A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the... →
A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its... →
Russell Smith
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian... →
No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is.
What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you... →
When you create art, the world has to wait.
Will Smith
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Robert Smithson
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.