Art Categorization Quotes

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

I have always been aware of different movements and directions in art. But, in general, I'm always bored by any kind of generalization when it comes to artists. I think that there are just single individuals, who are valuable, and they work outside of any group.

Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories.

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old.

I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

Some artists say 'Don't categorize me.' I'm saying 'You can't categorize me.'

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think.

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.

It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.