Quotes About Art

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.

What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.

I have an intuitive understanding of technology. And the way I incorporate technology in the work tends to humanize it a great deal.

Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.

Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people.

It was a great test of my ability to work with... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position... I couldn't make mistakes.