Quotes About Art

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning.

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

At times I'd much rather talk about other work.

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.