Art Conversation Quotes

An exhibition is in many ways a series of conversations. Between the artist and viewer, curator and viewer, and between the works of art themselves. It clicks when an exhibition feels like it has answered some questions, and raised even more.

When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

We must always apologize for talking painting.

I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.

It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library of art history books in my studio. And I would simply have the models go through those books with me, and we began a conversation about, like, what painting means, why we do it, why people care about it why or how it can mean or make sense today.

Overhearing people's conversations about art - that's always entertaining.