“Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.”
1960s, Modernist Painting (1960)
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Vanna Bonta
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The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XX, p. 236
Marcel Duchamp
(1887–1968) French painter and sculptor
1951 - 1968, The Creative Act', 1957
Context: I want to clarify our understanding of the word 'art' – to be sure, without an attempt to a definition. What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way as a bad emotion is still an emotion.
Therefore, when I refer to 'art coefficient', it will be understood that I refer not only to great art, but I am trying to describe the subjective mechanism which produces art in a raw state – 'à l'état brute' – bad, good or indifferent.
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Josef Albers
(1888–1976) German-American artist and educator
Homage to the square' (1964), Oral history interview with Josef Albers' (1968)
“My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.”
Gerhard Richter
(1932) German visual artist, born 1932
undated quotes, The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings (1962-1993)
“Art before the modern period is as much art as Neanderthal man is man.”
Joseph Kosuth
(1945) American conceptual artist
It is for this reason that around the same time I replaced the term "work" for art proposition. Because a conceptual work of art in the traditional sense, is a contradiction in terms.
Joseph Kosuth. (1969), as cited in: Claude Gintz, Musée d'Art Moderne Paris (1989). L'Art conceptuel, une perspective: exposition au Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 22 nov. 1989 - 18 fév. 1990. p. 42