Quotes About Art

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

About my method of work: first it's the state of mind—Elation (joy).

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

Evangelion is my life and I have put everything I know into this work. This is my entire life. My life itself.

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.