Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Carter Ratcliff

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Carter Ratcliff is an American art critic, writer and poet. His books on art include "John Singer Sargent" ; "Robert Longo" ; "The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art" ; and "Andy Warhol: Portraits". In 1976 he was an awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in fine arts research. Ratcliff has contributed to numerous magazines including Art in America and Parkett.

American - Critic | Born: August 20, 1941

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What is art?... From a strictly logical point of view, a question with no clear answer comes under the suspicion of being meaningless. But a strictly logical point of view never shows us much about art.

Carter Ratcliff

Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more.

Carter Ratcliff

Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.

Carter Ratcliff

I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.

Carter Ratcliff

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Carter Ratcliff

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