quotes on art

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words.

*** Ursula K Le Guinn

The artists of our culture, 'the antennae of the race,' had tuned in to the new ground and begun exploring discontinuity and simultaneity.

The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art. 

The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience.  

***  Marshall McLuhan

The most important thing in art is the frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

 You have to put a "box" around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?

***  Frank Zappa