“I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.”
— Olafur Eliasson
“For years I made abstract computer art, and people’s eyes would just gloss over. […] When people look at an abstract painting they know how paint works […] but with computer stuff, they just see a bunch of blinking lights.”
— Cory Arcangel
(from this fanzine interview)
“If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.”
— Mohandas Gandhi
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
— Bill Cosby
“I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.”
— Blaise Pascal
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
— Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
or Yogi Berra
“You cannot tell art by virtue of medium, or function, or anything else except by the fact of its raising your consciousness to a degree that you are attentive. And so if something produces the state of attentiveness, whether it’s a drawing, or a guy making a cheese sandwich, we can call it art, at least by my description. I have no other criteria for judging what art is.”
— Milton Glaser
If you are going to have less things they have to be great things.
— John Maeda
“Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.”
— Andy Warhol
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
— Mark Twain