Joseph Kosuth in: Arthur R. Rose, “Four Interviews,” Arts Magazine (February, 1969).
“Illusionistic art appeals to what the public knows not about art but about things. This ability to brush art aside is the secret of the popularity of illusionism. Ever since the Greeks told of painted grapes being pecked by real birds, wonder at skill in deceiving the eye has moved more people than appreciation of aesthetic quality. But for art to depend exclusively upon reproducing appearances has the disadvantage of requiring that the painting or sculpture conform to the common perception of things.”
Source: Art on the Edge, (1975), p. 239, "Reality Again: The New Photorealism"
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Source: 1960's, What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters' (1963), pp. 25-27
Paris 1923
As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 312
Quotes, 1920's
“The most perfect art was Greek art. Raphael is the greatest of all masters in painting.”
Such were the doctrines of every art teacher only twenty or thirty years ago.
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1900 - 1920, On Primitive Art – Emil Nolde, 1912
Quote, c. 1921; from Lyubov' Popova, in 'Commentary on Drawings', trans. ed. James West, in Art Into Life: Russian Constructivism, 1914-1932; catalogue for exhibition Rizzoli, New York: 1990, p. 69 (Popova's original text, in the Manuscript Division, State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, f. 148, ed. khr. 17, 1. 4.)
Quoted in Bryant American Pictures And Their Painters (1917), p. 302
Gregory Battcock. New Artists’ Video, an anthology, (1978) p. xiii. Introduction:
Listing of the several general questions to which video art gave rise to in those days.
Source: 1960's, The Bride and the Bachelors, (1962), p. 3
Quote of Mondrian, c. Oct. 1917; as cited in Letters of the great artists, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963 (transl. Daphne Woodward), p. 237
1910's
In 1934 on her new art form
Sikh Heritage,Amrita Shergil