Quotes About Art

Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

Photoshop is an art, and you can do a lot with it. Change the atmosphere through different lighting and make the pictures look more interesting.

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.

Express yourself through your art - whether it's your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses