Quotes About Concept

One of the grandest creations of the New South was a mythical concept of an Old South." What people take to be an epoch was a matter of mere decades of pretension and an exercise in irrational nostalgia.

The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. In India they use the word "karma" for lack of any better term. But it's a concept that's rarely given a proper explanation. It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

He tried to deal with the concept of love as distinct from possession, and couldn't separate them.

good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

The idea is more important than the object.

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a gallery.

art, n. This word has no definition.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.