Quotes About Art

Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.

All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.

Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway

Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way.

People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

I want to do music the rest of my life.

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as colour.