Denise > Denise's Quotes

“What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“I've never believed in God. But I believe in Picasso.”
― Diego Rivera

“Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.”
― Willem De Kooning

“Pictures must be miraculous.”
― Mark Rothko

“An empty canvas is full.”
― Robert Rauschenberg

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
― John Cage

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
― Susan Sontag

“Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.”
― Mick Jagger

“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ”
― William S. Burroughs

“Prior to Schneemann, the female body in art was mute and functioned almost exclusively as a mirror of masculine desire.”
― Jan Avgikos

“The end of art is peace.”
― Seamus Heaney

“I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism - the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost - no one questions it.”
― A.M. Homes, The Mistress's Daughter