Quotes About Perspective

An artist should have more than two eyes.

The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

Cinema is an art form.

What is art? Prostitution.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.