Quotes About Art

Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.

Well, she wasn't strong enough to avoid being the background of my art. Just the background. Her words just my canvas.

I cut a shred from my heart and dangled it on a homemade hook before her.

Unvollendete, Meredith said. Unfinished

but for poetry one needs one's native tongue. The voice of the soul is not so easily translated.

Solo perchè un poeta dice qualcosa non significa che sia vero, ma solo che suona bene.

What if he…" But I didn't want to say die…dying was a matter for professionals, not poets.

Michael used to draw self-portraits with nightmares hidden in his curls.

The stroke of the brush was the evidence of the gesture of your arm. A record of your existence, the quality of your personality, your touch, pressure, the authority of your movement.

Doesn't anything matter to you?' 'Survival,' I said, but even that sounded untrue now. 'I guess.' 'That's not much.' I painted a butterfly in Claire's room. Swallowtail. Another, cabbage white. 'I haven't gotten any farther than that.

Her violence. Claire, what did you know about violence? My mother's strength? Well she wasn't strong enough to avoid being the background of my art. Just the background. Her words just my canvas.

Photography is a medium of inescapable truthfulness. The camera doesn't know how to lie.

Theory and interpretation, far from threatening works of art, keep them alive.

I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during the punk era, when you just had a go at whatever came along.

Nowadays, everyone is sporting a tattoo, so the uniqueness of having one is gone unless you have an original tattoo.

One has to sing from the heart to let it touch the right chords. Unless you enjoy the song, your listener will not either.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to work with a team.

In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

Unlike Etsy, which is all handmade, we print and ship the products, not the designers. We relieve the designer from having to make and ship everything, package it, and provide customer service. All the designer has to do is submit art and keep doing what they love doing.

Street art, unlike graffiti, adds to the environment and is a positive experience for the artist and community.