Quotes About Perspective

The power of art can open our minds.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.

Art is nothing; it's a way.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

Art is the questioning of culture

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.