Quotes About Art

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and its formal components weren't important.

An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.

I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

As far as my opinion on galleries, I think they are a great thing. I see them as another outlet. I'm sure by now you've figured out that I do my work for everybody to see. That's the whole point.

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.