Amanda Hearst Quotes

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

I would see anything by Antony Gormley.

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

I would have loved to be the designer of the Capitol of the United States. I would love to do some important major public building.

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

Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture.

We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building.

Andy was a nonverbal person; you couldn't get directions out of him. All he knew was what was modern in art was what wasn't art: The telephone was art, the pizza was art, but what was hanging on walls in museums wasn't art.

The Barbara Hepworth museum in St. Ives is fascinating. Her achievements were astonishing.