My feelings quoting famous people:

Sculpture


Why do I make my sculptures with objects I find in the skip?
Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom. (Leonardo Da Vinci)

Why does it look right when we do it over and over again?
Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total. (Jean Tinguely)

Why do I want to create electric reactive objects?
The transformation of the experience: that is pure art. (Rebecca Horn)

Why do I want them to look simple (minimalist) before interaction?
Good art should elicit a response of "Huh? Wow!" as opposed to "Wow! Huh?" (Ed Ruscha)

Why do I want web pages on my work?
The creative act is not formed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. (Marcel Duchamp)

Why am I learning electronics, to weld and to edit sound and video?
The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' (Marcel Duchamp)



Need to say this to Science:

I felt this in my skin… Now I feel better. Much better.
Science disembodies; art embodies. (John Fowles)

Med School for me:
The difference between art and science is that science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else. (Donald Knuth)

Blood:
Art is not the bread, but the wine of life. (John Paul Richter)

Energy:
Science is spectrum analysis; art is photosynthesis. (Karl Kraus)

Semiotics limitations (?):
Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art. (Douglas Portway)




Need to say this to Portugal:

To some Portuguese painters:
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. (Marcel Duchamp)

To my philosophy teacher:
We have art so that we may not perish by the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

To my grandmother:
Art is not genius, but an ongoing dinner table conversation. (Julie Heffernan)

To my friends and family:
Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. (Jacques Lipchitz)

To lovers:
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. (Henry Miller)

To myself:
Art should make people's lives better, especially the artist's. (Todd Plough


Need to say this to the world:

Art is beyond nobody who cares. (Edwin Alden Jewell)

Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness. (Sir Herbert Read)