Paul Virilio Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art is alive because it is mortal.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Alive, Art Is

  Source: ctheory.net

• To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Real, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

• Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Technology, Reality

  Source: ctheory.net

• Now all we have to do to enter the realm of art is to take a car.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Car, Art Is

  Source: ctheory.net

• The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Museums, Cinema

  Source: ctheory.net

• I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, War, Chinese

  Source: ctheory.net

• Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Drama, Art Is

  Source: ctheory.net

• As I pointed out in The Art of the Motor and elsewhere, from now on we need two watches: a wristwatch to tell us what time it is and a GPS watch to tell us what space it is!

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Gps, Two

  Source: ctheory.net

• You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between the two extreme poles of birth and death, just like life is drama. This is not sad, because to be alive means to be mortal, to pass through.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Drama, Mean

  Source: ctheory.net

• Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Reality, Sculpture

  Source: ctheory.net

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