Quotes About Art

I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.