Quotes About Art

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

Oulipo ends where the work begins.

Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rarely sell.

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.

Florence is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It's very quiet as well - there's not much nightlife - so it definitely keeps me focused on the work.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

I invest because I'm really a firm believer in letting the artist make their work, if you choose to work with an artist then you give them the go-ahead.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work.