Quotes About Art

Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.

It is a very powerful feeling to know that my work is affecting people and to hear it from them directly.

Sometimes buying the ugly work is the thing that you know you should do.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes the viewer feel good.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.

You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful heart.