Quotes About Perspective

Art is to look at not to criticize.

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

You're supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you're not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

Drawing is deception.