Quotes About Art

Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work.

I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.

Every good work should have at least ten meanings.

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

One works without thinking how to work.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work