Quotes About Art

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

To work from nature is to improvise.

One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free.

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.

For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.