Quotes About Art

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

For me, looking at small images somehow recreates the experience of looking through a viewfinder.... At this size they're edible. You don't just scan them. You take them in all at once.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience.

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.

There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.

'Teen Spirit' is a celebration of the power that music can deliver to the cinematic experience.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication.

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.