Quotes About Perspective

There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

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

Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

All art is autobiographical.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

All creation is in the art of seeing.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.