Quotes About Art

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.