Quotes About Perspective

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

Art is an artificial organization of experience.

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

Art is seduction, not rape.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true.

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in the world!

Art should stimulate.

In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.

Pain, thou art not an evil

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

there is no politically neutral art.

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.