In the 'First Futurist Manifesto,' Filippo Marinetti, 1909; as quoted in Critical Writings: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, New Edition, quoted in the text on the Back Cover, Macmillan, 7 Apr 2007
1900's
after 2000, Gerhard Richter: An Artist Beyond Isms' (2002)
Quoted in Mother Reader by Moyra Davey (Seven Stories Press, 2011), p. xvii
A Frozen Woman (1981)
“A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.”
[[http://streets2k5.albuscav.us/upstage_guide.pdfStreets 2K5 international festival Of Street Art (May 2005) p. 19
" Beware!" ("Mise en garde!") http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/buren1.pdf, in Konzeption/Conception, translated by Charles Harrison and Peter Townsend (Leverkusen: Stadtischer Museum, 1969.
1960s
“Woman is a masterpiece of art to be admired and appreciated in her universal beauty.”
Original: La donna è un capolavoro d'arte da ammirare ed apprezzare nella sua bellezza universale.
Source: prevale.net
“An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.”
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 47
Letter to artists, 4 April 1999
Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_23041999_artists_en.html
The Gander, in Book Seven : What Saraïde Wanted, Ch. XLV : The Gander Also Generalizes
The Silver Stallion (1926)
Context: Nothing … nothing in the universe, is of any importance, or is authentic to any serious sense, except the illusions of romance. For man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams. These axioms — poor, deaf and blinded spendthrift! — are none the less valuable for being quoted.
RODIN, AUGUSTE. L'Art. Entretiens réunis par Paul Gsell, 1911
