“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
“Everything written about art is profoundly unimportant.”
The Artist Speaks (1951)
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Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) American painter
Quote of Ad Reinhardt (1963); as cited in: Joseph Kosuth, (1969), " Art after Philosophy http://www.ubu.com/papers/kosuth_philosophy.html" <br class="br">1956 - 1967 <br class="br">Variant: The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art as art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art.
“The universe is a perilous place. We do our best. Everything else is unimportant.”
Robert Silverberg book The Man in the Maze
Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 12, section 4 (p. 179)
Theo Jansen (1948) artist
Theo Jansen, quoted in: " 2015 International Kinetic Art Exhibit & Symposium - Boynton Beach, FL, USA http://intlkineticartevent.org/?page_id=107," 2015
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"The Divine Comedy" (1977)
Context: Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.
“Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130.
Context: Don't think about what you've left behind, the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever."
“Everything is art. Everything is politics.”
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
Coonan, Clifford. “ An Artist’s Struggle for Justice in China http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/an-artists-struggle-for-justice-in-china1912352.html.” Independent, February 27, 2010. <br class="br">2010-, 2010