Abe Ajay Quotes

An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.
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Art Historical Own Snake Swallowing Tale
The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial ‘nose for the new look.’ But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler
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Art Biennial Blow Fashion Industry Look New Seem Whitney World
Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that ‘Search is the Process’ and ‘Discovery the Art Form.
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Art Conviction Discovery Form Head Private Process Search
And starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked… And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line.
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Ask Bill Good Gospel Hyperbole Question Spreading
By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation
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Art Fashion Large Lonely Occasionally Persuasion Serious Thoughtful Valuable
The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.
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Describe Dig Discovery might Mining Number Operation Place Search Studio
Manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.
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Auction Block Fashion Manipulate Scholar Self Serving Vagaries
It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and ‘search’ is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.
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Discovery Essential Involve Promise Risk Search
I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.
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Advice Color Enough Good Look Student Use
Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads
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Angst Art Congregation Forum Genuflect Historical Huckster Metaphor Ridden Snake
Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?
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Bit Business Guy Hell Hold Ugly
Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.
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Allow Collage Immediacy Indulge Making Painting

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