Grotjahn Art Quotes

#1. It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

Gertrude Stein

#2. Little boy crying. "My daddy has been dead for 10 yrs, but he came to town to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and didn't come to see me.

Robert Cato

#3. I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

Jerry Saltz

#4. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Andrew Jackson

#5. And I'll remember the love that you gave me, now that I am standing on my own, I'll remember the way that you changed me, I'll remember.

Madonna Ciccone

#6. The quest toward a windmill is more fulfilling than an empty stroll, sometimes, even if the windmill isn't real.

Elizabeth Silver

#7. What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don't want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.

Allie Burke

#8. Hadn't I known from the start he was perfect? But I hadn't known I was perfect too, just as I was. Perfect for him, anyway.

Annabel Joseph

#9. I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like third-grade art projects.

Mark Grotjahn