Quotes About Art

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.

Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

The phrasing didn't work as well.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.