Quotes About Art

Obaveštavajte me sigurno o svom radu, zasad su vaše slike isuviše zbrkane i nedostaje im pe?at li?nosti. Radite! Radite! Treba sa?ekati razvoj vaših nesumnjivih kvaliteta. Nadam se da ?u jednog dana mo? da se vama pozabavim" –pismo Pjera Leba, Pariz,1926

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me

I'm too intelligent to be a good painter; to be a good painter you've got to be a bit stupid - with the exception of Velázquez who is a genius.

I never took drugs, because I am drugs

Empiece por aprender a dibujar y pintar como los viejos maestros. Después de eso, puede hacer lo que quiera; todos te respetarán. Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

I always paint those vast sandy expanses that go as far as the eye can see. I don't know why; I have never been in North Africa. I suppose it's an atavism of the Arab blood.

What is surrealism?// A spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectivity of the associations and interpretations of delirious phenomena.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath

Literature is an art, and the essence of all art is mood.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Come mai l'Italia, che grazie agli italiani d'un tempo si meritò il nome di 'giardino d'Europa', sta facendo scempio di se stessa? Quello che sta accadendo è un'involuzione culturale passeggera o una profonda mutazione antropologica? Siamo accecati solo davanti al paesaggio, o anche alla tutela del patrimonio culturale, alle esigenze della scuola, dell'università, della ricerca, dell'arte e della scienza, della musica, insomma della cultura?

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined man.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

I was once present at a lecture that Eugene Smith gave to some students at a school of photography. At the end, they protested because he had made no mention of photography, but had spoken the whole time about music. He calmed them by saying that what was valid for one was valid for another. —Henri Cartier-Bresson