Pablo Picasso, May 1923. I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all, an art given the chance of having a starting point of zero. I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap and still comes out on top. Oldenburg, contemporary artist, associated in early career with Pop art We erect monuments so that we shall always remember, and build memorials so that we shall never forget. Thus we have the Washington Monument but the Lincoln Memorial.
Monuments commemorate the memorable and embody the myths of beginnings.
Memorials ritualize remembrance and mark the reality of ends. The Washington Monument, vertical, is a celebration, like fireworks. The Lincoln Memorial, even if on a rise, presses down and is a meditation in stone. What excites me most in my profession, much much more than anything else, is portraiture, modern portraiture. I endeavor to do this through color and am certainly not the only one to search n this direction.