Quotes About Art

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.

I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.

I take a lot of pictures.

Music is like art, so I just paint all my pictures and put 'em out there.

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

I've done my best to avoid B pictures.

I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures.

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.