Quotes About Art

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

We become very impressed when we get to look inside ourselves, into pictures. That's the relationship we have with pictures. Every picture is a piece of the inside of ourselves.

I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.

Art problems are problems of human relationship.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.

Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.

I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.

I have always had a relationship with clothes.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

Well, if this is poetry, it is very easy to write.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.