Quotes About Art

Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.

Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

I work on drawing as a final product.

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.

Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art

My work is my work and I will attempt to sell it for what it is.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.