Art Distinction Quotes

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction.

Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

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

I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.

Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.

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

I'm a magician, not a singer.

Can works be made which are not 'of art'?

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.