Art Quotes

"Culture is a concept that includes a refining and elevating element, a general process of intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic development."

"Cultural criticism must be attentive to both particularity and universality."

"Every artist is a healer of sorts."

"Art is a way of making the invisible visible."

"Art must abandon representation to embrace pure creation."

"Art is the most effective means of penetrating reality."

"Art breaks the chains of conventional thought."

"Art works precisely when it fails to communicate clearly."

"Art is what happens when technique encounters necessity."

"Representation is always a negotiation, never a simple transfer of truth."

"Reading is an act of violence and creation simultaneously."

"Writing is an attempt to bridge the gap between consciousness and expression, but the gap remains."

"To be read across languages is to be multiply translated, multiply transformed."

"To write is to betray; we select, we simplify, we inevitably distort."

"Art begins where mere representation ends."

"Art teaches us to see what we have learned not to see."

"Art is the defamiliarization of the familiar."

"Every signature is unique, irreplaceable, and haunted by repetition."

"Art is where we can imagine alternatives to the given world"

"Culture expresses power relations through seemingly neutral forms"

"National culture is the collective memory of the people."

"A national culture under colonial domination is a contested culture whose destruction is pursued."

"A national culture is not folklore, nor is it an abstract populism."

"Culture is the memory of a people."

"National culture in the underdeveloped countries should therefore take modern forms and body forth the aspirations of the people."

"Culture cannot consist merely of a collection of museums."

"Art should provoke new ways of thinking and being in the world."

"The city is a text to be read and rewritten constantly."

"Aesthetic experience can be a form of political resistance and transformation."

"The relationship between form and content is never stable or predetermined."