“This book is not a journal; it is an exercise-book, a disorderly pile of shavings.”
Alfred Kazin
more infosource: May 18, 1944 entry in Alfred Kazin’s Journals, selected and edited by Richard M. Cook (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2011), 61.
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category: fragment, journal, writing
medium: Journal
“If you look at Seurat, most of the dots in the grass are green, the generic color of that area. The other colors only modify that color. I feel less kinship to Seurat than I do to Byzantine mosaics, where an image is built out of discreet incremental marks—chunks of stone or glass—that fit together. I want people to see what made the image. I like dropping crumbs along the trail like Hansel and Gretel. That’s what all these paintings are about.”
Chuck Close
more infosource: “Chuck Close,” interviewed by Lisa Yuskavage, BOMB magazine, Issue 52, Summer 1995.
category: art, bread crumb, Byzantine, color, fragment, mosaic, painting
medium: Interview
“The collage technique, that art of reassembling fragments of preexisting images in such a way as to form a new image, is the most important innovation in the art of this century. Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen, or recognized.”
Charles Simic
more infosource: Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (New York: The New York Review of Books, 2006), 19.
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category: art, collage, fragment
medium: Art criticism
“It may be that the incomplete story, the particle, the fragment, is now the preferred unit of information for our culture, and lack of place is more useful for presenting these fragments than to fix them into sentences or grids.”
Frances Butler
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