Quotes About Art

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.

Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.

I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.

Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.