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."
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.”
