Quotes About Art

I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.

Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people.

I'm kind of interested in visual communication. For me it's more about suggesting than arguing a point.

I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.

I think certainly directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

Typography is what communication looks like.There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

You never really get to touch anything that you're doing unless you print it out. I don't really enjoy making artwork on a computer because it doesn't seem like I've done anything.

It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.

So I just always drew. But never took that as a career path. I ended up in the computer business, and found myself as the vice president of sales and marketing for a computer accessories company.

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ... I'm not anti-digital, I just think, for me, film works better.

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.