gardega manifesto

1) Modernism is a lifeless and empty dinner


2) all great art lives in the past


3) Art deco, art nouveau (they matter)


4) abstraction is symbolic of a society who seeks beauty without effort.


5) The greatest rebel today is a classicist


6) There is more beauty in a single NC Wyeth painting than in the entire collection of the MOMA

7) art is empty and meaningless and it is empty and meaningless that it is empty and meaningless.

8) craft is a five letter word (not a four letter word)

9) Irony has had her day.

10) art should transcend class and education, it should be accessible to a plumber. Elitism is the enemy of true art.


11) looking backwards is looking forward.

12) art is like a river, when art is sick the people are sick.

13) without philosophy and the geometry of spirit ,there can be no art.

14) Don't be afraid to be hated.

15) Greatness in art and life requires unnatural courage and the loss of the affections of the mediocre.

16) It is far better to be known than unknown.

17) Courage is knowing what not to fear.

18) Artist, sell thyself!!!