“Be sympathetic to the maker and realize that the mere act of putting yourself and your work out there takes courage.”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.comTagged: Courage, Art, Critiquing Art
“I also lean way too heavily on the word interesting. It's value-neutral, which is helpful. But it also says very little.”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.comTagged: interesting
“We should also value work by artists focused not just on craftsmanship but on the effective execution of good ideas. It's the thought they bring to the form, or have others bring to the form, and not just the form itself.”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.comTagged: Art, Critiquing Art
“Rather than devote their lives to mastering a particular medium, some artists began to push the boundaries of those mediums and even forgo them all together. There's sculpture that is purposefully unmonumental, paintings purposefully non-virtuosic, drawings purposefully simple. It's not that these t…”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.comTagged: Art, Critiquing Art
“I think it's perfectly fine to have a preference for art that displays manual talents unavailable to most.”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.comTagged: Art, Critiquing Art
“When you say, 'I could do that', what you're really saying, and what I would encourage you to say next time is, 'This doesn't display a remarkable amount of skill. And that's what I really look for in art.'”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.comTagged: Art, Critiquing Art
“If you think about Felix Gonzalez-Torres... we can look at "Untitled" (Perfect Lovers) from 1991 that pairs two commercially-available clocks and synchronizes their time... The title clearly asks you to consider these clocks to be a metaphor for lovers and how two individuals with hearts beating, li…”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.comTagged: Art, Felix Gonzalez-Torres