Quotes About Art

I don't make deals, I make pictures.

It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

Some people take pictures; I write songs.

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.