Quotes About Art

Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.

I always say the work is not a celebration as such, because that's sometimes just as weird and excluding and perverse.

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.

There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge.

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

You know, what can I say. If a relationship can't work out, make a record.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.

In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.