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"There is nothing quite so pleasing as the feel of a ballpoint pen on soft, padded newsprint"

–Pete Emslie, via Boing Boing
The Cartoon Cave, 2/23/2010

"My fifth grade teacher told my mom, 'Maybe he can pursue art?'"

–KAWS, Interview with Tobey Maguire
Interview, May 2010

"I don’t think about myself that often. That’s the type of thing that makes someone lock themselves in a box, you know what I mean? I do things because they feel right, because I feel there are certain images I want to see. Whether or not everyone out there likes it, loves it, hates it, it doesn’t really matter to me."

–Harmony Korine, Interview
The Onion A.V. Club, 5/20/2010

"The truth is that overanalysing art, as opposed to intuitively rating it, carries its own dangers."

–Jonathan Jones, Art Criticism Starts with Love and Hate
The Guardian, 3/16/2010
cf. Jerry Saltz, Less Than the Sum of Its Parts

"You could argue with their choices but not their philosophy."

–Jerry Saltz, Remembering Dia, at the End of an Era
New York Magazine, 3/12/2010

"In the end, a good visual makes a statement that endures."

–Shepard Fairey, No Distinction
Theme Magazine, March 2010

"I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together."

–Jeff Koons, The Artist and the Art of Others
The New York Times, 2/24/2010

"Life is too short for most of us, heaven knows, touched by grief and elevated by love, if we’re lucky."

–Linda Yablonsky, Mortal Coil
artforum.com / scene & herd, 2/19/2010

"Everything in the world is art."

–Shaquille O'Neal, Art Curator Shaq Is His Own Masterpiece
New York Magazine, 2/7/2010

"The work is conservative, unimaginative and anachronistic, and it pales by comparison to the classical masters it emulates."

–Ken Johnson, Tracing the Path to Chinese Finesse
The New York Times, 2/14/2010

"...art in our time can be not merely interesting or shocking – let alone 'fun' – but can attain the most profound qualities of the noblest masters."

–Jonathan Jones, Abstract Expressionism: When Art Became Larger Than Life
The Guardian, 2/11/2010

"I can’t believe this is all in the service of art!"

–Jerry Saltz, on An Evening with Jeff Koons
ARTINFO, 2/3/2010

"We have many more choices of materials than we used to and many new approaches."

–David Bull in Questions Over Fixing Torn Picasso
The New York Times, 1/25/2010

"Whatever happens, New York is going to miss the squirrelly circus master and semi-visionary known as Jeffrey Deitch."

–Jerry Saltz, Why New York Will Miss Jeffrey Deitch
New York Magazine, 1/20/2010

*work in progress:

"His line, or sense of movement, is vivacious but purposeful, hot but not wild."

–Holland Cotter, A Line Both Spirited and Firm
The New York Times, 1/21/2010

"When working, one should answer one’s own questions."

–Li Songsong, interviewed in Shattered Gems
Time Out Beijing, January 2010

"His rapturous mind lives on through these magnificent works."

–Jonathan Jones, Is William Blake Britain's best artist?
The Guardian, 1/12/2010

"Unpopular but potentially revolutionary art ideas need places to be seen, heard and debated. Depth, not breadth, is what matters."

–Christopher Knight, MOCA's Complicated Choice of a New Director
The LA Times, 1/11/2010

"The question is: Where is he going?"

–Erica Orden on Klaus Biesenbach, Herr Zeitgeist
New York Magazine, 12/27/2009

"Now we are confronted by images that belong to, well, to a new century."

–Jonathan Jones, For art, nothing compares to the noughties
The Guardian, 12/21/2009

"I am not happy... The selected works seem very poor. It has really dismayed me to see such mediocre things selected."

–Botero ("best known for whimsical depictions of fat people")
Arcadia Magazine via The Guardian, 12/15/09

"I had no aspirations to be a successful fine artist."

–Shepard Fairey, The New York Times T Magazine, 12/7/09

"But is it art?"

–James Franco, A Star, a Soap and the Meaning of Art
Wall Street Journal, 12/4/09

"Since Andy Warhol, media exposure has been increasingly important and a handful of artists are celebrities of sorts. An artist’s work needs to accumulate a body of interpretation and, better still, a series of narratives about the creation of the work that brings it to life. Artists’ personalities are important to the marketability of their oeuvre. To that end, scathing reviews can be just as useful as good ones. They suggest the work has touched a nerve, violating good taste or established norms."

–A Special Report on the Art Market: How to Make Art History
The Economist, 11/26/09

"A lot of the artists who were reporting were telling us, 'I live in a recession all the time, so this downturn has really not been so different for me.'"

–A Survey Shows Pain of Recession for Artists
The New York Times, 11/24/09