Quotes About Art

All good work requires self-revelation.

The work has to have room to breathe.

It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.

I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.

Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives.