Quotes About Art

A lot of people dont think of my work as being all that funny, but I think its hilarious!

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

The work I enjoy is when the camera rolls, and I like the work in the moment.

If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

I don't want to direct music videos at all. Any work I do with a camera I'd like to be for a film.

In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.