Whether we call it art or not, there is something absolutely wonderful isn’t there just about this activity that’s a form of thinking and feeling through just doing, just making. Antony Gormley: How Art Began, BBC 2019
Art is the best tool we have for trying to understand our place in the world. ibid.
A new story of where and when art really began. ibid.
This is La Vezere in the south of France; it was huge during the last ice age that modern humans created some of the most extraordinary works of art the world has ever seen … Images in this cave were made between 14 and 16,000 years ago. ibid.
Art is a litmus test of our values. ibid.
In the last ten years new evidence has come to light that suggest that there is that there is art much much older than this … If it’s true that Neanderthals were making art, it changes all our ideas of how art began. ibid.
Sulawesi, Indonesia: another group of scientists have made an extraordinary discovery. They’ve found art here made by human beings who have had no contact. ibid.
Australia: The landscape itself is so extreme that much of the art has remained unknown to the wider world. ibid.
I create nothing. I own. We make the rules. Wall Street 1987 starring Michael Douglas & Charlie Sheen & Daryl Hannah & Martin Sheen & John C McGinley & Terence Stamp & James Karen & Hal Holbrook & Sean Young & James Spader et al, Gordon Gecko
Create something instead of living off the buying and selling of others. ibid.
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. Will Self
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation. Gertrude Stein, Picasso
‘The idea is not to live forever; it is to create something that will. Andy Warhol, cited Warhol’s America III: Life After Death, BBC 2022
... the swindle of life and the treachery of a God that can create disease and misery and crime – create things that men would be condemned for creating – that men would be ashamed to create. Mark Twain, cited Isabel Lyon journal 2nd February 1906
The artist is the creator of beautiful things
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray preface
Welcome to the 18th century: an explosion of creativity in a country obsessed with the chic of the new and rich enough from trade and conquest to pay for it. Art that Made Us V: Consumers and Conquest, BBC 2022
An age of exploitation stirs a growing social conscience. ibid.
A British design classic: the grand country house. ibid.
Anglo-Saxons: Far from a dark age this was a time of huge creativity and development. Dr Francis Pryor, Britain AD: King Arthur’s Britain I, Channel 4 2004