Richard Meier Quotes

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

It present to allow me to ask myself questions about what I'm doing. I think that's what visual art does - it either reminds you of something or allows you to question something. I don't know why Robert Motherwell; I love so many different artists.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature and of deviating from it... The deviation, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil.

As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for people. Identification is difficult. One doesn't recognize my art right away.

I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I don't feel especially conflicted enjoying a Mantegna one day, a Carl Andre the next day and a brash student work the next.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.

I have a set of images that go around the world in an art gallery installation. Each of them have different audiences, and they kind of each elucidate the subject in a slightly different way, and they ping off of each other.

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.

There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and a wrong in these matters, but there is truth, and that should form the basis of all works of art.

America and Europe are so different in the way they conceive of themselves and art and cinema.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.