Quotes About Art

I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

I'm attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what's going on inside me.

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

I think that artists have a better chance at making great art if they know as much about every different area in the industry as they can.

The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.

It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.