Quotes About Art

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.

Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.

The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before.

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.

I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.

The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore in the range of its interpretations.

I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways.

I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.