Quotes About Art

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.

As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

The Art of Elysium is a program I've volunteered with for close to ten years, and I work with Unicef and Young Storytellers. My passion is really working with children since they are the future.

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.

Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

I feel my work is a success in so far as I get to wake up every morning and do what I love to do more than anything in the world.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.