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Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything around a street sculpture-they all become part of it. A two-dimensional work, being confined to surfaces, doesn't have as much of a capacity. -- Mark Jenkins
It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums, they keep living on and on and on, even if you move to a different space, that work is still operating. -- Kalup Linzy
Space is the breath of art. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. -- Philip Johnson
Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. -- Douglas Coupland
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. -- John Updike
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. -- Philip Johnson
Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space. -- Ronald Graham
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. -- Stephen Gardiner
Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist. -- Michel Faber
Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American. -- Renzo Piano
I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through. -- Bill Budge
There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces. -- Theaster Gates
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. -- Frank Stella
Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors. -- Jerry Saltz
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years. -- Jerry Saltz
Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves. -- Antony Gormley
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances. -- John Berger
When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event. -- Jerry Saltz
As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing. -- Renzo Piano
When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance. -- Jerry Saltz
There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but wonder - 'What are the people I know going to think about this?' So I have to remind myself that all is permissible. Art has to be a free space. Language has to be a free space. -- William T. Vollmann
The aim of art is to create space. -- Frank Stella
Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. -- Andy Warhol
Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites. -- Vladimir Putin
Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form. -- Daniel Bell
Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow. -- Camille Henrot
The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body. -- Anna Halprin
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture. -- Thom Mayne
A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself -- Finn Juhl
Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God -- Anselm Kiefer
THE TECHNIQUES OF the Art of Peace are neither fast nor slow, nor are they inside or outside.. They transcend time and space. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in. -- Romany Malco
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. -- Carl Sagan
Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it. -- Haile Gerima
Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that. -- George Saunders
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I feel like there's a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I'm completely in the world of possibility. -- Laura Owens

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