Quotes About Art

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately why I got into making movies, is because I love to play.

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.

People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but a piece of the artist.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.