Quotes About Art

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its readers are up to the challenge of interacting with difficult material.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

I work, play and do everything in French.

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.

The Aston Martin is a beautiful car. It's a work of art, I love the interior and the style of the car.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.

It's always really scary to release new work.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.

Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.