QUOTES

Bear with me here for a bit, I'm going to be doing a lot of posting to get (sort of )caught up to the goings-on of this semester.

First of all, some quotes that I've picked out of readings from my Art from 1940-1970 class that I kind of like:

"The [artist]’s obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. People are driven towards making works of art, not by familiarity with the process by which this is done, but by a necessity to communicate their feelings about the object of their choice with such intensity that these feelings become infectious."
- Lucian Freud, "Some Thoughts on Painting," 1954.

"You see, all art has now become completely a game by which man distracts himself; and you may say it has always been like that, but now it’s entirely a game."
- Francis Bacon, Interview with David Sylvester, 1962 (from The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon, London, 1975.)

"I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice-cream cones dropped on concrete. I am for the majestic art of dog-turds, rising like cathedrals."
- Claes Oldenburg, "I Am for an Art...", 1970.