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Quotes About Art

I am always telling students that a story is not just words. You can tell a story with dance or paint or music. Kids and adults are visual learners, auditory learners. There are those of us who need to touch it. Storytelling encompasses so much more than words on paper.
~ Deborah Wiles
Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.
~ Marilyn Minter
I was always a visual artist my whole life, and I came to music really late - when I was 21 or 22 was the first time I ever touched a musical instrument. For me, it was always this fun side hobby.
~ Tycho
Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
~ Nate Powell
Visual effects have always been a part of this art form. And CG is simply a tool on the filmmaker's tool belt to tell a story, but when the end result is bad - maybe it's not the tool's fault.
~ Freddie Wong
I've been a visual artist my entire life, so translating music to imagery has always come naturally to me. Tycho is an audio-visual project in a lot of ways, so I don't see a real separation between the visual and musical aspects; they are both just components of a larger vision.
~ Tycho
I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.
~ Jeff Koons
My overall plan for Instagram is to continue to create a tool that will inspire people to use their visual voice.
~ Marne Levine
I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual.
~ Dawn Richard
I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5.
~ Rupi Kaur
I've always been interested in visual art and used to be much more into theater when I was younger, or more knowledgeable about what's going on. And literature has played a big part in my life.
~ Todd Haynes
I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.
~ Todd Haynes
I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design when I couldn't afford to have a team and I didn't want to look like I was indie. I wanted to give fans the visual.
~ Dawn Richard
I'm inspired by visual stimulation.
~ Mark Parker
The visual of Deadpool was very informed by Spider-Man.
~ Rob Liefeld
Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.
~ John Gourley
I don't really trust musical artists that don't also do visual art.
~ Hunx
I'm a Banksy fan. I'm also a fan of Chris Hobe, Mister Totem, Drew Wootten, Mad Clout, Hense and Sever, in visual and street art. And Jonathan Mannion and Shane Nash in photography.
~ Killer Mike
I guess standup is really painting pictures with words - especially for me, as I describe quite fantastical, visual things. My art teacher, Dexter Dalwood, always seemed to think they were linked. We bonded over our love of Vic Reeves.
~ Noel Fielding
I enjoy Instagram because it is a visual medium platform, with more photographs.
~ Ishaan Khatter
As someone that really likes painting and visual art but also likes video and movies and also music and recording and style and clothes, it was hard to pick what to do with my life.
~ Andrew W.K.
I've done a lot of dance sequences because I like them; I like to animate dancing because it's fun and visual.
~ Genndy Tartakovsky
I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.
~ Zawe Ashton
I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.
~ Black Thought