Quotes About Art

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

The craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.

Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre.

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

I would not describe myself as a left-wing filmmaker. I don't think this is the first thing that would pop into my mind when talking about my work.

There are still people who don't like my work and that's okay with me.

Having a book is actually like a great master - helping to build a universe and unify work - especially in my pictures where there is such a strong signature, yet with a set of rigorous rules to it.

Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations.