Quotes About Art

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.

In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.

Every morning, I make myself a cappuccino with a drawing in the foam. I post them to Instagram with the hashtag #christiecappuccino.

There are a lot of aspects of filmmaking that I love, but one of my favorites is in post, finding the right song for the right moment.

My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

My dad is Japanese; he was an art director there. My mom is half-English, half-Argentinian. They met in Japan in the '70s. Her parents were diplomats posted there.

In the case of the Obama poster, I was just exercising my First Amendment rights - and my free speech is exercised visually. People who want to talk or write in order to share an opinion about Obama can do that, but when I want to say what I think about him, I need to make a portrait.

I'm a huge poster collector.

I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.

I've always wanted to make a poster out of my bad reviews and frame it.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

When I was young, anywhere I would go in Germany, I would see my father's posters. Everyone knew about him. And he had many friends who were artists who were also quite famous. So, for me, it seemed very natural to be an artist and be known.

I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters.

I miss the newness of Magic Eye posters, which really are amazing.

When I was just 13 years old, I even painted cinema posters.

I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world.

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.

The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.