Matthew Slotover famous quotes

Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.
-- Matthew Slotover

#Art #Wall #Graffiti

Art and society was a lot more subject to sexism 50 years ago than it is now. Since that period, there have been plenty of very good female painters, 2006 Turner Prize-winner Tomma Abts among them. How much history needs to pass before an artist is called 'great'? That is the real question.
-- Matthew Slotover

#Art #Real #Female

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a gallery.
-- Matthew Slotover

#Art #Art Is

Movements are overrated and invented by the press. Ask any artist if they feel or felt part of a movement - the good ones will all say no.
-- Matthew Slotover

#Artist #Overrated

Art is about the context in which it is made as much as the object itself; objects take on different meanings in different contexts. If the artist is unaware of the context, it's very unlikely the work will be very good.
-- Matthew Slotover

#Art #Different #Very Good

Street art is designed to be seen out of the corner of your eye, on the hoof. Art that's made for galleries is made to be looked at in a more static way for a longer period of time and may not be so striking immediately, but perhaps resonates for a longer period.
-- Matthew Slotover

#Art #Eye #Art Is

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.

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.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.

Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies.

Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.