Quotes About Perspective

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

Every day matters. I think so. I do. But I really have to work to force myself to see its value sometimes.

I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

Every work of art is about everything.

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.