Artistic Consumption Quotes

I think Picasso was someone who took art's powers of consuming, its powers of much-ness and multiplicity, and used that to his fullest extent. That's something that was permitted to men, obviously, much more than women, but was also permitted in the past much more often than now.

I think art maybe has just become very consumer-oriented, and maybe it's always been that way because it is a business.

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.