Art Quotes

"Authentic artworks are those that successfully resist the culture industry."

"The distinction between authentic and commodity art is itself commodified."

"Bourgeois art always anticipated the reification of the world."

"Art that would shake off the fetishism of commodities is art that renounces itself."

"Art is the social antithesis of society, not immediately deducible from the relations of production."

"Society is not the ideal framework for art but its prison."

"Art becomes true when it ceases to exist as art."

"Every art form betrays its own impossibility."

"What impedes the development of the political content of art is that art has become the refuge of the damaged life."

"Art must think against thinking itself."

"Art that is successful within the system has already been neutralized by that very success."

"The gesture is not an action; it is the exhibition of an action."

"Every gesture contains within it the possibility of its own negation."

"The work of art is the space where meaning is both created and destroyed."

"The gesture is what remains when meaning has been exhausted."

"The gesture reveals what words conceal."

"Every work of art contains the possibility of its own destruction."

"All sorrows can be borne if you put them in a story or tell a story about them."

"Art is a machine for producing new subjectivities and new ways of existing."

"The role of art is to open new possibilities for human experience."

"Art and science are not opposed; they are different ways of exploring reality."

"Art therapy is about reconnecting people with their creative potential."

"Art and activism are inseparable in the struggle for human dignity."

"The image is never a simple representation."

"Art becomes problematic when it claims to represent anything other than itself."

"Authenticity in the culture industry is the ultimate product—completely manufactured."

"There is no art without becoming."

"Cinema is the art of becoming; it captures movement itself."

"Culture is the crystallization of forces that could be flowing."

"Art is not expression; it is the creation of new perceptions."