Quotes About Art

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.

Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.

To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.

My dad would often take me to the cinema and I found myself really seduced by the imagery, I think this had a massive impact on how I viewed the world.

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

Bowie's been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the 'Diamond Dogs' album, and the cover alone just grabbed my attention. I think I was probably around 12.

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Q: Do you really distance yourself from your subject? I mean, what would you do if you were presented with a young girl burning to death? A: About 1/60 at f5.6.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Competition is the death of art.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.