Quote of the Week - Eric Fischl

"To have the art experience is to change places with the object. It is for one to become still, to become frozen in one's tracks, to leave one's body for a brief moment, to stand outside oneself and reflect on one's life meaning by looking through the object, which now stares back. It is a profoundly complex process of identification and transference."

Eric Fischl, from his essay "A Meditation on the Death of Painting", The Phillips Collection Fall 2008 magazine.

Quote of the Week - Jeanne-Claude

"After living in Paris we moved to the United States -- No, what am I saying, we didn't move to the United States, we moved to New York City!"

Jeanne-Claude at the Phillips Collection artist lecture, October 16, 2008 (photo taken afterwards at the book signing)

Quote of the Week - Ellsworth Kelly

"It's better, because it exists;"

"it's the best...until I do another one."

Ellsworth Kelly, commenting on one of his paintings, Blue/White, as it's being installed in the permanent collection of the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Fall 2007.