Quotes About Art

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

That's how I feel about the work. The work is solid, the work exists and will stay the same, but if you can have it playing and interacting with light, then it will always be different.

I use Instagram as an online gallery to display my work. For me, it's almost more important to exist online than it is in real life.

I don't really think about my work in terms of whatever money it makes. That's just a bonus. I'm just going to do the work anyway, so whatever comes back is good with me.

it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.

Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

I am a musician who stopped working with music. Now I work with visual music, or audio-visual music.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.

The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use!

When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.

The songs that you work and work and work on sometimes are just forced and not as good.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.

One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.