Quotes About Art

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography.

Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

A work of art is a confession.

His work "The Pasture" features cast bronze cows in Toronto's financial district I wanted to remind stockbrokers what real stock is.

My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.