Drawing Retrospective: Blackboard

Failure begins with someone setting out to buy canvas and stretcher.
Joseph Beuys

Meaning is confused spaciality, framed.
Mike Kelly

The popularisation of art is its demise, the role of critics has been taken over by journalists, who are merely justifying categories and trends within contempory art. They do not exercise critique.
Elaine Sturtevant

I feel that the concept of creativity is suitable for hairdressers, but not for artists. True artists base their work on the conviction that art is not free.
Gerhard Merz

As business, art will continue as long as it pays and as long as its smooth functioning lulls everyone intio believing that art is still alive
Theodor Adorno

Excellence in art is the complete accomplishment of its purpose.
V&A Museum London (above main entrance)

The End of Art. The peculiar nature of artistic production no longer fills our highest need. We have gone beyond venerating works of art as divine and worshipping them. Thought and reflection have spread their wings above Fine Art. In all these respects Art considered in its highest vocation is a thing of the past.
Wolfgang Friedrich Hegel

At the centre of art is a subject proving remarkably resilient to its demise.
Peter Burger

Everyone an artist.
Joseph Beuys

Art is not for everyone.
Elaine Sturtevant

My work undermines itself: all the theoretical reasons end up being negated or mocked by the execution of the work.
John Armleder

Why must I act like that, why must I chase that cat
George Clinton

Don't work if you don't feel your work starts revolution.
Joseph Beuys

Some oils for painting, a good book, my radio and just hoping that nothing happens.
Albert Oehlen

All intellectually determined activity is theatrical.
Lawrence Weiner

I am thinking with my knee anyway
Joseph Beuys