Quotes About Art

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.

There's a reason why I use film. It's because it's the best representation of how our eyes work. I really believe that. I think it's better than digital.

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

I think, for an artist, when you're drawing somebody who actually exists, it's a much steeper critical curve, as there is an actual representation of that person out there. You can't just interpret it any way you want.

On the sets of the movie 'Manto,' I found that one of the challenges of embodying real-life stories is the mixed medium of facts and imagination, and how one's collage of experiences colour ones representation on celluloid.

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.

Cinema is a larger-than-life representation. I wish to bring it to the small-screen.

Apparently, Agent Coulson is a representative or an avatar of all the geeks. And there is so much love for Coulson and fan art of Coulson.

It's really the old question: Does art inspire life or does life inspire art? Maybe it's a combination of both. But Trump represented something. He didn't create what we are. He comes from what we are. And he's a representative of what we are, whether we like it or not. He's just not our better nature.

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture.

Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.

Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.

There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very exciting. It's a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive.

Yes, doing a work, telling a story very much represents a way to save my own life, and on so many levels.

My gallery represents a lot of figurative artists.

Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.