Quotes About Art

still carry around with me a battle between working conceptually—art based on some overriding idea—and my pure carnal sensory love of materials.

The Westway, the old strip club on Clarkson Street, is still there, but today it's owned by a hipster restaurant entrepreneur who caters to the ironic cultural lifestylers, more fashion world than art, people who are "cool" because they live in New York.

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All the hours and years since then inside vans, on buses, in airplanes and airports, in recording studios and lousy dressing rooms and motels and hotels were possible only because of the music that sustained that life. Music that could only have come out of New York's bohemian downtown art scene and the people in it

I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living.

Artists who painted natural curiosities found themselves documenting a world emerging and disappearing at the same time, a brief encounter as species heading for extinction and humans crossed paths.

No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.

The Nazis are trying to control what we can read." Madame Marcelle shook her head. "It's much worse than that," she said. "Controlling the newspaper makes sense in an occupied land. Novels and works of literature are art in the same way that songs are art. It's wrong to burn them. It's wrong to ban them.

The album we've made is much more than a book. It's worth even more than the time that it took.

You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing…Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.

Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something related to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannot separate technique from expression. There is only expression.

The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature.

For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand's work unfavorably.

Kiyohiko Azuma

There are, broadly speaking, three directly analogous progressions inthe history of art: in Antiquity, from the blockiness of Egyptian art to the loose, painterly handling of Roman landscape frescoes; in the Middle Ages, from the tectonic emphasis of Ottonian art to the flamboyance of late Gothic; and in later times, from early Renaissance linearity to the sparkling web of light spun by the Rococo. The wheel turns full circle, but more rapidly each time.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

Voor een schrijver is het geheugen bijna alles. Het opgespaarde materiaal wordt er niet alleen maar opgeslagen. Het meest waardevolle wordt er als in een toverzeef achtergehouden. Stof en molm vallen erdoor en worden door de wind weggevoerd en slechts het goudzand blijft achter. En daarmee worden dan kunstwerken gemaakt.

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.

You know now that our work on a play begins with the use of _if_ as a lever to lift us out of everyday life on to the plane of imagination.

I sit and gaze like this for a long time, recovering through art from the effort of creating it.