David Galenson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.
-- David Galenson

#Artist #Errors #Careers
The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.
-- David Galenson

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Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.
-- David Galenson

#Artist #Frustration #Skills
The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a particular purpose... a problem solved can free him to pursue new goals.
-- David Galenson

#Artist #Goal #Purpose
Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.
-- David Galenson

#Artist #Goal #Innovation
Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.
-- David Galenson

#Artist #Innovation #Influence
It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.
-- David Galenson

#Artist #Recognition #Curator
Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. Twain wrote 'Tom Sawyer' at 41 and bettered it with 'Huckleberry Finn' at 50; Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim Museum until his death at 91.
-- David Galenson

#Museums #Names #Frost
Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.
-- David Galenson

#Artist #Practice #Important

The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
An artistâ€™s job is to captivateâ€¦ if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.
The more an artist works the more there is to do.
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.
Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.
The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.

David Galenson famous quotes

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