La Ronda de Citas

The Polemic quotes round is intended to challenge the theoretical capabilities of each team, *and* to steer the direction of the game in favour of conversion leading to unlimited awe and love for the capitalist dream. We win when participants sell their souls to us, preferably for no more than the price of a beer, a feather or a few more points on their pitiful score.

Los Citas Seleccionados

Santiago Sierra

German, from Saehrendt & Kittl.

Pablo Picasso

English.

Jerry Saltz

English Babylon Now

En el tema del robar

• "If there is something to steal, I steal it!" ~ Pablo Picasso
• "A good composer does not imitate, he steals. - Igor Stravinsky
• "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. - T.S. Elliot
• "When you steal from one author, it's plagarism. When you steal from many, it's research. - Wilson Mizner, U.S. Dramatist
• "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." ~ Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Spanish artist

Otras del Valor

• "I had reservations about making art a business, but I got over it." Mary Boone (Art Collector / Gallery Owner)
• "Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." ~ Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
• "Make art. See art. Buy art." ~ a first grader in Kathy Douglas' Choice Based Art Class.
• "There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artists dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good. Theres a squad of conservators out there to look after anything an artist decides is art." ~ Charles Saatchi Quotes ::: art collector :::
• "I dont see what else you can spend your money on, he says of the super-rich. If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet. Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. Thats as close as you can get to immortality." ~ Damien Hirst. FT.
• "Always make sure you are chasing your art with the money, not chasing the money with your art." ~ Frank Dunphy, quoted in FT.

Canciones

• "Money, money, money
  Must be funny
  In the rich mans world"
  Abba.
• "Art for art's sake
  Money for God's sake"
  10CC
• "Money makes the world go round,
  the world go round, the world go round."
  Cabaret

Mystery

• "As humans organize themselves into hierarchical structures, art is used to support these structures. In our contemporary world, the lever is the intellectual and social capacity to encrypt the aesthetic meaning of a work of art. " ~ ArtMarket Artfacts.Net Ltd. Operating System Art World Dipl.Kfm. Marek Claasen
• "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." ~ Andre Gide
• " Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?" ~ Pablo Picasso
• "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." ~ Francis Bacon
• "The perfection of art is to conceal art" ~ Quintilian
• "Art is a lie that helps us to realize the truth." ~ Pablo Picasso
• "A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." ~ Al Capp on abstract art

Otras

• "Caberet isn't art." ~ Anon.
• "What good are computers? They can only give you answers." ~ Pablo Picasso
• "I don't get into "becauses." When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say "because" you get into art jargon." ~ Clement Greenberg
• "We have differences but we're not made different. If you don't agree with me, you're wrong." ~ Clement Greenburg
• " Revolution in art is to paint a new vase of flowers!" ~ Oscar Araripe, Brazil
• "Talent! What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way." ~ Winslow Homer
• "There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way." ~ Winslow Homer
• "There is no must in art because art is free." ~ Wassily Kandinsky
• "The music business is very different from the art world. The art world is still artist-led. The record companies dont want artists who think. They want bands who will be entertaining and make lots of money. There are more pressures on them." ~ Damien Hirst
• "We finish, and he leaves the room, pausing only to look at a small and pointless piece of wood on the wall.
  Do you think thats a work of art? Dont ask me, I say. He knocks it three times, rap, rap, rap. No. Its a piece of wood." ~ Damien Hirst