Quotes About Perspective

Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.

Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.

Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

I grew up in the art world.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

Making art is different for everyone.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!"

When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.