Quotes About Art

Art is right reason in the doing of work.

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.

In college I had to major in something, so I was like, "Okay I like art history, so I will major in that." I never really had any ambitions to work in museums or anything, though.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

The art of love is God at work through you.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.