Quotes About Art

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting.

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

I'd rather dance than eat.

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.