Molly Crabapple Quotes

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least.

It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn't define it in the early Fifties when I was starting out.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be a relief. What's interesting is the idea of a tourist randomly coming in and the experience they'll have.

The idea of a 'happening' is that there is little distance between the viewer and it, whatever 'it' is. It's an experience that's on-going and evolving.

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo.

I think 21st century should be art without objects.

As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

I can't believe that 100% of the people who stand in art galleries looking at art are thinking, 'Well, here I am, looking at art.' They must be having some sort of other, unselfconscious experience.

At my first exhibits, people were saying that's just a light on the wall.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.

Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary.

I'm an artist, a performer... There's an art to what we do to the wrestling... I don't want to really fight anybody.

I'm out there to produce the best content - The most creative content I can do and express myself through wrestling.

We have a very physical performance art. A lot of times, when you want to achieve a certain emotion, you have to use professional wrestling ingredients, which are moves or a sequence of moves.

I love creating art, whether it's with photos, my own body, or clothes.

Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at

I like to approach every day like it's my first, so this morning when I woke up I covered my body with red gelatin.

One of my favorite moments is onstage, when you see a dancer leap, and you think they're flying, and then they fall. It's that moment of suspension that you look for, and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't.