Art is
permitted to survive only if it renounces the right
to be different, and integrates itself into the
omnipotent realm of the profane.
-- Theodor W. Adorno
1903-1969, German
Philosopher, Sociologist, Music Critic
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it
flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the
possibility of control over what seems essentially
uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate,
and in its ability to create its own values.
-- A. Alvarez
1929-, British
Critic, Poet, Novelist
Art is
an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
-- Lindsay Anderson
1923-, British Film
Director
Artists are, above all, men who want to become
inhuman.
-- Guillaume
Apollinaire
1880-1918,
Italian-born French Poet, Critic
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Without poets,
without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse
with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and
which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.
Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no
seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life
would give way, and the impotent void would reign
everywhere.
-- Guillaume Apollinaire
1880-1918, Italian-born
French Poet, Critic
Art is a fruit
that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in
its mother's womb.
-- Jean Arp
1887-1948, French-German
Artist, Poet
The primary
distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate
that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the
state of being alone.
-- James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author
Pop artists
deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that
the present generation is lugging along with it on its
safari into the future.
-- J. G. Ballard
1930-, British Author
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