Quotes About Art

I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

Architecture is the work of nations

Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

I can't work without it [music]. And it has to be the right kind, because if it's not then I get into a bad mood. I work with a remote so that I can change CDs instantly if I need to.

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.