Quotes About Art

Trabajo solo, lucho por progresar en el arte y la vida».

In drawing a wall, he said, "the artist who must copy every small stone and each stroke of whitewash has missed his calling: he should have become a bricklayer.

The dominant theories of elite art and criticism in the 20th century grew out of a militant denial of human nature. One legacy is ugly, baffling, and insulting art. The other is pretentious and unintelligible scholarship. And they're surprised that people are staying away in droves?

To a literate reader, a crisp sentence, an arresting metaphor, a witty aside, an elegant turn of phrase are among life's greatest pleasures. And

Although 'to paint' means something like to cause to be covered with paint, one does not 'paint a brush' when one dips it in the can, and it is hard to say with a straight face that Michelangelo painted the ceiling when he caused the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to be covered with paint.

raped, or killed, and it's hard to develop sophisticated arts, learning

Many intellectuals and critics express a disdain for science as anything but a fix for mundane problems. They write as if the consumption of elite art is the ultimate moral good. Their methodology for seeking the truth consists not in framing hypotheses and citing evidence but in issuing pronouncements that draw on their breadth of erudition

They write as if the consumption of elite art is the ultimate moral good.

Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

I feel some responsibility to shine light on things that I love.

People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.

I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.

Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.

Paradise is to love many things with a passion.

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.

Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.