Quotes About Art

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

When I work I forget all the rest.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

I don't want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.