Dan Graham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.
You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.
I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.
The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience...
Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at

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