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Sarah Urist Green Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“Be sympathetic to the maker and realize that the mere act of putting yourself and your work out there takes courage.”
— Sarah Urist Green, I Could Do That | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Tagged: Courage, Art, Critiquing Art
“I also lean way too heavily on the word interesting. It's value-neutral, which is helpful. But it also says very little.”
— Sarah Urist Green, I Could Do That | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Tagged: interesting
“We should also value work by artists focused not just on craftsmanship but on the effective execution of good ideas. It's the thought they bring to the form, or have others bring to the form, and not just the form itself.”
— Sarah Urist Green, I Could Do That | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Tagged: Art, Critiquing Art
“Rather than devote their lives to mastering a particular medium, some artists began to push the boundaries of those mediums and even forgo them all together. There's sculpture that is purposefully unmonumental, paintings purposefully non-virtuosic, drawings purposefully simple. It's not that these things don't take skill. They just take different kinds of skill - research, deduction, collaboration, exploration of new materials, radical thought.”
— Sarah Urist Green, I Could Do That | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Tagged: Art, Critiquing Art
“I think it's perfectly fine to have a preference for art that displays manual talents unavailable to most.”
— Sarah Urist Green, I Could Do That | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Tagged: Art, Critiquing Art
“When you say, 'I could do that', what you're really saying, and what I would encourage you to say next time is, 'This doesn't display a remarkable amount of skill. And that's what I really look for in art.'”
— Sarah Urist Green, I Could Do That | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Tagged: Art, Critiquing Art
“If you think about Felix Gonzalez-Torres... we can look at "Untitled" (Perfect Lovers) from 1991 that pairs two commercially-available clocks and synchronizes their time... The title clearly asks you to consider these clocks to be a metaphor for lovers and how two individuals with hearts beating, like the ticking of clocks, can be in perfect sync and then inevitably fall out of sync. The title further suggests that the lovers remain perfect, even after they've fallen out of sync.”
— Sarah Urist Green, I Could Do That | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Tagged: Art, Felix Gonzalez-Torres
“The next time you walk into a gallery and you see something you think is ridiculous, maybe think about what you've been trained to expect when you walk into a museum, what around you is forming your opinion, and see yourself as an active agent in determining what it is, why it is, and whether you, as the institution, accept it.”
— Sarah Urist Green, Art or Prank? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Tagged: Understanding, Critiquing Art
“What is it that make one thing ordinary and another extraordinary?”
— Sarah Urist Green, Art or Prank? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Tagged: Understanding
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