Your fragility is also your strength.
Your fragility is also your strength.
Robert Smithson; during the construction of Spiral Jetty, 1970
The cosmos is also within us, we're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
— Carl Sagan
I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
[...] almost everything that we gave over to the light and the desert as an artistic challenge was transposed, became an expression of light, space and time. The most uplifting surprise for my eyes though was the realisation that space and light are more powerful than my artificial works, but that my relatively small constructions could reduce the endless spaces of the desert and articulate and intensify the all encompassing brightness of the light. Everything which I did in the desert did not damage her inviolacy but confirmed it [...]
— Heinz Mack
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Peter Zumthor | Therme Vals | 1996
The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.
Kitty Kraus | Untitled | 2006
To change art destroy ego.
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal.
Please do not understand me too quickly.
Yves Klein
Empty room reserved for the "sensibilité picturale immatérielle",
Haus Lange, during the "Monochrome und Feuer" exhibit, 1961
It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe, and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. It's a crazy world out there. Be curious.
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It's a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.
Andy Warhol is the only genius I’ve ever known with an IQ of 60.