Quotes About Art

If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.

I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because its part of my journey.

So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.

I make film to make time pass.

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

It's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

It takes time to learn to draw. It takes years, not a few weeks.

I did stand-up for a long time and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve.

I just pretty much love from 1966 to 1972, that's my time. I think everything that needs to be said was said within that time. That's just a subjective thing, as well.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the same again. It is quite exciting for me.

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.