Rene Ricard Quotes

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Photography is not a fine art at all.

An artist is usually responsible only for the creation of a particular art. It's up to the critics to label it.

I don't enjoy art.

I can't believe that 100% of the people who stand in art galleries looking at art are thinking, 'Well, here I am, looking at art.' They must be having some sort of other, unselfconscious experience.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?