Art Object Quotes

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

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.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

Maybe now if you're not an exhibitionist you're private. Or maybe it's just that for a lot of people - sometimes in interesting ways, sometimes in stupid ways - there's no division between the art object and what surrounds it.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.