“It was like realizing your parents have a life outside of you and you’re not a kid anymore.”
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“When times are dark there is the inclination to want to give up. But the Dark Ages led to the Renaissance.”
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“I used to think art was an escape from the grind of daily life, but this work tells me it might be more of an inoculation — pieces of the world absorbed in small amounts so we can go out and live in it.”
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“Sometimes we’re so overwhelmed in the present that it seems impossible to think a future beyond it – but the work of imagination must always continue.”
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“How is art to react? By persisting in its freedom.”
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“It is intriguing, what the mind selects to focus on (or seek refuge in) during a time of crisis.”
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“In the midst of a contagion that threatens our way of life, isolates us remorselessly from family and friends, and breeds fear and paranoia, I find these pieces grounding.”
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“With vast art mausoleums now shuttered, we artists increasingly occupy the same virtual space, deepening our exchanges by sharing readings, conversations, and Zoom studio visits.”
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“I have been looking at this painting and receiving relief like a cool drink on a hot day.”
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“Ordinarily, I feel a sense of solidarity in isolation with other artists. I feel it even more during our enforced isolation.”