Quotes About Art

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy.

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.