Artists are both more patient and more impatient than a non-artist in a museum setting. I do not want to linger in front or things that don’t interest me.
I don’t care who made them, I don’t care what time period they were made in, the incredible backstory of how the piece ended up in the museum - it couldn’t interest me less.
I just want the visual hit, that adrenaline rush of some visual piece of interior feeling or knowledge or insight. Without it, I’m gone.
When I find it, I can stare at a painting for hours, long after people with sensibility have moved on.”
“As an artist, how do I walk through a museum?
Artists are both more patient and more impatient than a non-artist in a museum setting. I do not want to linger in front or things that don’t interest me.
I don’t care who made them, I don’t care what time period they were made in, the incredible backstory of how the piece ended up in the museum - it couldn’t interest me less.
I just want the visual hit, that adrenaline rush of some visual piece of interior feeling or knowledge or insight. Without it, I’m gone.
When I find it, I can stare at a painting for hours, long after people with sensibility have moved on.”
-David Salle