Rules Of Art (Poem by Clara B. Jones)

Rules Of Art

for Dalton Anthony Jones


Sol Lewitt: "If words are used, and they proceed from ideas about art, then they are art and not literature."

Morgan Parker: “What does it mean to be at once upheld and at the same time continually made to feel less than?”

Louise Nevelson: “Different people have different memories.... Some have memories for words, some for action—mine happens to be for form.”

Frank Stella: “It's art, or it wants to be art, or it asked to be considered as art, and therefore the terms we have for discussing art are probably good enough.”

Doris Rita Alphonso: “[Christine Delphy] criticizes feminists and others who challenge sex as a natural category and yet maintain the distinctions between masculine and feminine as a necessary cultural construct.”

Claudia Rankine: “Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.”

Helen Vendler: “I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse.”

Jennifer Hansen: “Each subject ought to be free, argues [Luce] Irigaray, to pursue the unique possibilities of his or her subjective identity in ways that do not subordinate their differences to a hierarchical, patriarchal economy.”

Sol LeWitt: "Perception is subjective."

Mel Bochner: "What has been generally neglected is a concern with the object of art in

terms of its own material individuality--the thing itself."

Gertrude Stein: “Afrobots make better pets than cats but hiss like snakes.”