Quotes About Art

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.

A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but youve got a lot of downtime as well.

I like to go into the studio and start work on a project when it's time. I don't like to do it too early or too late.

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

I'm one simple way I think I've succeeded was capturing Elsa [Dorfman]. There's something about Elsa, her personality, and her work that I believe is there.

I've always loved [Elsa Dorfman] work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the reasons to make the film is to expose Elsa, hopefully, to a wider audience.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body.

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.

Directing a film is a lot of work.