„The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.“

„Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it — Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism.“

—  André Malraux French novelist, art theorist and politician 1901 - 1976

Part IV, Chapter VII
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
Контексте: Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, or rusted statuettes as such, nor is it the vestiges of death that grip us in them, but those of life. Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it — Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism.

„Concept art is first of all an art of which the material is concepts, as the material of e. g. music is sound. Since concepts are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.“

—  Henry Flynt American musician 1940

Henry Flynt: "Essay: Concept Art." (1961) In: La Monte Young (ed.) An Anthology, 1963.

„The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension — working strength — is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.“

—  Hans Hofmann American artist 1880 - 1966

"Excerpts from the Teaching of Hans Hofmann", p. 66
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)

„Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or "dematerialized."“

—  Lucy R. Lippard American art curator 1937

Источник: Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (1973), p. vii.

„(Art worlds) consist of all the people whose activities are necessary to the production of the characteristic works which that world, and perhaps others as well, define as art.“

—  Howard S. Becker American sociologist 1928

Источник: Art Worlds (1982), p. 34.

„To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.“

—  Asger Jorn Danish artist 1914 - 1973

Statement of 1971; as quoted in Asger Jorn (2002) by Arken Museum of Modern Art, p. 145
1959 - 1973, Various sources

„Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.“

—  Frank Chodorov American libertarian thinker 1887 - 1966

Источник: The Rise & Fall of Society (1959), p. 77

„There is a reciprocal action between the work of art and the viewer. The river changes the work of art and criticism can also change the artist... There are so many ideas afloat; any of them could have triggered the work of art. It is impossible to determine exactly if the idea has been transmitted by the critic, or if the work itself has determined its outcome..“

—  Anselm Kiefer German painter and sculptor 1945

(1986) n.p.
Structures are no longer valid', in "Ein Gespräch..."

„Arts have died in Europe, what we see now in the name of art are the pieces of those artists who are already dead. There is no living art. We, as Turkey, should start a lively, fresh understanding of art.“

—  Harun Yahya Turkish author 1956

23 June 2013.
A9 TV addresses, 2013

„Let us take the time in this fast and ever-changing life which harasses us and tears us to pieces; to have the strength to remain slow and calm. To work outside the elements of disintegration that surrounds us. To comprehend life in it slow and calm sense. The work of art requires a temperate climate in order to develop fully. In this heightened tempo which is the law of life, to determine fixed points to hold onto them and to slowly work on the achievement of the future“

—  Fernand Léger French painter 1881 - 1955

Fernand Léger – Das Figürliche Werk, exhibition catalogue, Köln, 1978, p. 52
Quotes of Fernand Leger, 1970's

„It is the same with art. Art will become the product of another duality in man: the product of a cultivated externality and of an inwardness deepened and more conscious. As a pure representation of the human mind, art will express itself in an aesthetically purified, that is to say, abstract form.“

—  Piet Mondrian Peintre Néerlandais 1872 - 1944

1910's, Natural Reality and Abstract Reality', 1919

„One of the best product of the 20th century Renaissance in Philippine arts and letters, Don Epifanio de los Santos y Cristobal exemplified the intellectual gentlemen whose passion for knowledge and the arts paralleled his life long existence.“

—  Epifanio de los Santos Filipino politician 1871 - 1928

Carolina Afan " Epifanio de los Santos Y Cristobal
BALIW

„The significance of a work of art is determined then by the quality of its growth. This involves intangible forces inherent in the process of development. Although these forces are surreal (that is, their nature is something beyond physical reality), they, nevertheless, depend on a physical carrier. The physical carrier (commonly painting or sculpture) is the medium of expression of the Surreal. Thus, an idea is communicable only when the surreal is converted into material terms. The artist’s technical problem is how to transform the material with which he works back into the sphere of the spirit.“

—  Hans Hofmann American artist 1880 - 1966

'Search for the Real in the Visual Arts', p. 40
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)

„I like living, breathing better than working… my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.“

—  Marcel Duchamp French painter and sculptor 1887 - 1968

„Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.“

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882

Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

„Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.“

—  James McNeill Whistler American-born, British-based artist 1834 - 1903

Propositions, 2
1870 - 1903, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies' (1890)

„Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.“

—  E.M. Forster English novelist 1879 - 1970

„The object of art — like every other product — creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.“

—  Karl Marx German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist 1818 - 1883

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Источник: Introduction, p. 12.

„Art before the modern period is as much art as Neanderthal man is man'. It is for this reason that around the same time I replaced the term "work" for art proposition. Because a conceptual work of art in the traditional sense, is a contradiction in terms.“

—  Joseph Kosuth American conceptual artist 1945

Joseph Kosuth. (1969), as cited in: Claude Gintz, ‎Musée d'Art Moderne Paris (1989). L'Art conceptuel, une perspective: exposition au Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 22 nov. 1989 - 18 fév. 1990. p. 42