Quotes About Art

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

Only the picture matters. It's what goes on the screen that counts.

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture.

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.

I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.