Quotes About Perspective

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

The camera basically is a license to explore.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.

If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to 'Wow! Huh?'

There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

Some people's photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that's fine. But that's not why I do them. I'm a gun for hire.