"Against Interpretation" (1964), p. 8
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
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Joseph Kosuth
(1945) American conceptual artist
Joseph Kosuth, “Introduction” in Art After Philosophy and After: Collected Writings, 1960–1990 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991); cited in: Thierry Mortier. " Semiotics as Art: Kosuth http://www.semionaut.net/semiotics-as-art-joseph-kosuth/," Sunday, 1 July 2012.
“The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: If a man approaches a work of art with any desire to exercise authority over it and the artist, he approaches it in such a spirit that he cannot receive any artistic impression from it at all. The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. The spectator is to be receptive. He is to be the violin on which the master is to play. And the more completely he can suppress his own silly views, his own foolish prejudices, his own absurd ideas of what Art should be, or should not be, the more likely he is to understand and appreciate the work of art in question.
“Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.”
Claude Debussy
(1862–1918) French composer
As quoted in Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought (1992) by John Paynter, p. 590
Unsourced variant: Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
“A work of art is a work of art, and nothing else, personal considerations count for nothing.”
Roger Fry
(1866–1934) English artist and art critic
E M Forster -0bituary of Roger Fry ,1940 ,'Biography of RogerFry'by Virginia Wolf , Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York 1940.
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Arnold Schoenberg
(1874–1951) Austrian-American composer
"An Artistic Impression" (1909) in Style and Idea (1985), p. 189
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“I don't see why escapist literature should not also be a work of art.”
P. D. James
(1920–2014) English crime writer
Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography
“Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.”
Andy Warhol
(1928–1987) American artist
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), p. 92
Context: Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. After I did the thing called 'art' or whatever it's called, I went into business art. I wanted to be an Art Businessman or a Business Artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippies era people put down the idea of business – they'd say 'Money is bad', and 'Working is bad', but making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
S. H. Raza
(1922–2016) Indian artist
Indian contemporary artists have not reached my standard: SH Raza