Quotes About Art

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

Most art will disappear. The past is edited so it always looks clearer to us. Today always looks a bit of a jumble. We'll put up with rubbish from now, but not with rubbish from the past.

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.

Amidst all this bustle it is not reason, which carries the prize, but eloquence; and no man needs ever despair of gaining proselytes to the most extravagant hypothesis, who has art enough to represent it in any favourable colours. The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master

Art may make a suit of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

But though there be naturally a wide difference in point of delicacy between one person and another, nothing tends further to encrease and improve this talent, than practice in a particular art, and the frequent survey or contemplation of a particular species of beauty.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--position and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

There is not a great deal of pleasure in only seeing what someone else considers their best pictures.

The act of writing, especially of putting pen to paper, has always had a sacred quality. The process by which one creates a paragraph-of conceptualizing, framing, and sequencing a moment in time-is the same process that governs some of the most sophisticated psychotherapies.