Quotes About Art

It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.

Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

The cinema is death at work.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone.

I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

Out of the work comes the work.

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.

I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes.

I think novels - or any art form - can have a powerful impact on people's perceptions of race, particularly if they draw attention to the absurd inconsistencies and stereotypes we all carry around with us and don't want to think about.

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

If you come in with all of the answers, you might create something that's very beautiful and powerful, but I think it will also seem sterile if you don't leave room for people to have their own reactions to it.

I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.