Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job. The press are the most cynical and re-enforce an outdated attitude that is not actually the way people think. People enjoy challenges, find visual art exciting and do not think all artists are trying to pull a fast one.
Antony Gormley (via artnotartnot)
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Drawings are my most intimate activity, drawing is like writing, and it is like praying.
Haluk Akakce (via artnotartnot)
Billy Apple, ‘If you wipe a dirty spot off a wall you’ve removed it, but you haven’t eliminated it. You’re stuck with a dirty rag you didn’t have before.’, 1971
Cut vinyl lettering, galvanized steel bucket, cloth, cleaning product, 990×375
In a work of art, different acts, episodes, occurrences melt and fuse into unity, and yet do not disappear and lose their own character as they do so—just as in a genial conversation there is a continuous interchange and blending, and yet each speaker not only retains his own character but manifests it more clearly than is his wont.
Art as Experience, John Dewey (via lethebashar)






