Art Dialogue Quotes

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

We must always apologize for talking painting.

Artists talk in 'art speak.'

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

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