Quotes About Art

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

Drawing a funny animal, you don't need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there's certain things you can't leave out.

There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

Most of Tina Modotti's work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.

It's hard to be objective about your own work.

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

My work has no theme. I don't care if my photographs get published, and I have no interest in the news. But the invasion of Prague was not news, it was my life.

There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art - which is art.

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.