Ellen Gallagher famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.
-- Ellen Gallagher

#Art #Cities #House
The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge.
-- Ellen Gallagher

#Cutting #Layers #Matter
I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.
-- Ellen Gallagher

#Believe #Cutting #Bird
Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who donâ€™t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.
-- Ellen Gallagher

#Artist #People #Joy
The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.
-- Ellen Gallagher

#Together #Woven #Fiction
This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.
-- Ellen Gallagher

#Recovery #Ideas #Density

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.
I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.
I sing around the house, in the shower
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

Ellen Gallagher famous quotes

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