“Art is the proper task of life.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Joan Jonas (Art Practice Mentor) lecturing at the Frieze Art fair this weekend
“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” — John Lennon
“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.” — Jean-Michel Basquiat
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” — George Bernard Shaw
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” — Orson Welles
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” — Claude Monet
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.” — Samuel Johnson
“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.” — Will Durant
“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.” — Constatin Stanislavski