What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.  -Jean Dubuffet

When an artist explains what he is doing he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his subsequent work fit in with the explanation.  -Alexander Calder

“I never feel age … If you have creative work, you don’t have age or time.”  - Louise Nevelson

Holocaust 

-George Segal

Andy Goldsworthy - Spiral (1995)

Andy Goldsworthy - Spiral Jetty 

velveteenrabbit:artlessgratis

Verginer, Willy

(Under Byen - Om Vinteren)

jamreilly:

via lethebashar & art-documents:

Aiko Miyanaga

“Like precious gems, Aiko Miyanaga’s crystalline sculptures reflect light and shine with a brilliance that beguiles the viewer. But while diamonds are forever, Miyanaga’s carefully crafted forms are not long for this world. In fact, some of her pieces are gone before her exhibitions even come to a close.”

- Japan Times : Who Says An Art Work Must Exist?

Barnett Newman’s Broken Obelisk outside the Rothko Chapel

hyperallergic:

Nam June Paik, Piano Piece, 1993
Closed-circuit video sculpture, 120 x 84 x 48”
Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund, 1993

sisterspock:

replek

Anish Kapoor, sans titre 2008

Happy Birthday Constantin Brâncuşi
February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957 

“Bird In Space”