Camille Paglia Quotes

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.

From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

In a lot of ways, I wouldn't be an artist in another time. I need to exist in a time where high and low art mix easily.

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.