Grayson Perry presumably has said: ...“I wanted to create a desirable object,” he said, noting what he sees as a “category error in the art world” where things like humor and political importance are mistaken for art. The paramount value in visual art is “visual pleasure. Everything is being done better elsewhere,” he noted...
In a film, I heard Sally Mann say - who got it from Hemingway - "if you're stuck, do the one thing you can". I might eventually be able to do one thing.
Wrung from Walter Benjamin: "Perhaps the most deeply hidden motive of the person who collects draws can be described this way: he takes up the struggle against dispersion. Right from the start, the great collector artist is struck by the confusion, by the scatter, in which the things of the world are found (…)
The collector artist brings together what belongs together; by keeping in mind their affinities and their succession in time the mind, he can eventually furnish information about these objects make art".
The collector artist brings together what belongs together; by keeping in mind their affinities and their succession in time the mind, he can eventually furnish information about these objects make art".
Listen to D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, on Growth and Form: "When he sees in snail, or nautilus, or tiny foraminiferal or radiolarian shell a close approach to sphere or spiral, he is prone of old habit to believe that after all it is something more than a spiral or a sphere, and that in this 'something more' there lies what neither mathematics nor physics can explain."