Quotes About Art

I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

I got a little tattoo on my face, I'll never be able to work another real job so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the nonproductive ones.

But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what it was like.

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

Sometimes I just have a few people over to see the new work, and I think it works better than in a museum situation, where the public is just presented with a large area.

When you come to Venice, you do special work.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

I'm interested in making works for museums in a way that make the space feel domestic, and I'm always thinking about how this work will be part of someone's daily life.

I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.

Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making.

I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with sculpture I have someone I can work with.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me.