Best quotes by Ali Smith on Art

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• ‟ People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence, but it's really a celebration of our existence.

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• ‟ It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.

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• ‟ Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.

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• ‟ What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

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• ‟ I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.

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• ‟ When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.

  - Ali Smith