Quotes About Art

I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

Work always gives me an opportunity to grow as an artist and a person.

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

There are, of course, many, many, many good cinematographers and unfortunately they don't work as much as many of those people who do those crazy, stupid movies.

If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.

In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart

Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

I think that Walter De Maria's Lightning Field, Michael Heizer's City, and Charles Ross's work in Star Axis New Mexico , all three will last for a millennium.

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature.

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

And as far as I know about Alix's [MacKenzie] work, I don't believe she ever did any sculptural work at all. It was always pottery.

[My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at the time we knew Hans, his work was nothing like that.

I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

If continually people look and look and always come away enriched, then it's a great work

I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art.