Quotes About Art

I think it's more important to show your work to the public.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.