Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

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

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

Although I consider myself a direct descendant of the Renaissance heritage, I believe that an artist has to follow his own evolution and not solely be a ruminant of the past, as glorious as it may have been. An artist conducts a search that may lead him far out in exploring new areas of interest. I continually search to discover new and better means of expression.

All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil.

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.

So yeah, it's nothing that I'm doing on purpose, I just think that the more records, the more songs that I write, the more records that I make, you're obviously going to fall into a specific style and thank God it's a style that people are into.

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do. That is where you get your power. That is our power as a group. I am not trying to make the same music I made 10 years ago.

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?

In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.