Edmund Snow Carpenter
If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don't address themselves to audiences; they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others hear & are affected.Collection: Artist
The White House is now essentially a TV performance.Collection: White
No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and decorative objects. The Aivilik say simply, "A man should do all things properly."Collection: Art
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.Collection: Opposites