Category: quotes

I wanted to get to non-art, non-connotative, non-anthropomorphic, non-geometric, non, nothing, everything, but of another kind, vision, sort, from a total other reference point.

— Eva Hesse

(via Leah Wechsler on FB)

That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.

— Alexander Calder

I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. I’ve found out there aren’t any. I wanted to be stopped but no one will stop me.

– Damien Hirst

The more work a designer does on his or her end, the less work a user should have to do.

– David Rager

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.

– Henri Poincaré

(this was spotted in the NYC subway but it’s too good not to post)

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

– Ad Reinhardt

Art is lies that tell the truth.

– Piccaso

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.

— Shunryu Suzuki

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

— Edward Albee

Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.

— Sol LeWitt