Quotes About Art

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.

I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.

It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.

The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions.

I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.

I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

Do good work and share it with people.

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

I'm back into fashion which is great! Because they do all the terrible work of production for me.

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.