Quotes About Art

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.

For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.

Body experience... is the centre of creation.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film.

I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.

With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I'm very much a jazz poet.