Quotes About Perspective

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

Art and politics have many things in common.

I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.

If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.