Quotes About Art

It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.

When you're young, and you're doing stuff, you're making music, directing, making art, it's all future directed. You want to change stuff onward. And when you get older - this applies to me - you think about the things you want to do and how it will be perceived by your children one day.

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

All artists, no matter who they are, have always come into contact with criticism. No one's gonna like what you do 100 percent of the time.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of it.

Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

I don't want you looking at the light fixture; I want you looking at where light goes. But more than that, I'm interested in the effect of light upon you and your perceptions.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century.

I don't use film in the way that the great auteurs do. I use film, the camera, to record as effectively and as perceptive as I am able what I want to say through the actors.

I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.

I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.