Quotes About Art

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more

I can't wait fifteen years to do my work: Because my ideas are coming now.

I want to do work where I have something to say.

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

I remember my friends at primary and secondary school admiring my work and even paying me money for some of my pieces.

I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it is important to people. Without it, lives can be dull.

I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and de Kooning, one of the big boys.

My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole person rather than merely transfer knowledge.

I'd like to work with Damien Hirst.

I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner.

I love photographing. I love the experience of being around all the things that surround you when you go out to do work.

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.