Nicholas Serota quotes

“UBS have been important supporters of Tate Modern since 2000 and we are delighted to announce this exciting and unique partnership”
-- Nicholas Serota

#Unique Quotes #Important Quotes #Partnership Quotes

“Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet.”
-- Nicholas Serota

#Sweet Quotes #Art Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.”
-- Nicholas Serota

#Art Quotes #Sight Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much for the past and not enough for the present and the near present.”
-- Nicholas Serota

Source : "Tate chief attacks 'save for the nation' art policy" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2003.

#Past Quotes #Worry Quotes #Care Quotes

“Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided (1993) is a work which can at first glance be read as nothing more than two brutally severed carcasses. "A freak show" was how the art critic of the Sunday Telegraph responded to its presentation in the Turner Prize in 1995. For me, the undoubted shock, even disgust provoked by the work is part of its appeal. Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet.”
-- Nicholas Serota

Source : "Who's Afraid of Modern Art?". The Dimbleby Lecture, 2000.

#Sweet Quotes #Art Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.”

“The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.”

“When something important is going on, silence is a lie.”

“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.”

“Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.”

“I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty.”

“The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.”

“If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.”

“In a spiritual partnership you learn that wanting what you want is not enough, but that you must both want it deeply and create it every day, that you must bring it into being and hold it in being with your intentions.”