Quotes About Art

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

Actually, you want to go into an area where you're frightened. Otherwise, you're just going to be repainting beautiful paintings, but a little duller each time.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

I've always been a fan of music where you can hear new things each time you listen.

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That's probably as close to immortal as we'll ever get.

I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.

I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.

Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.

...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.

I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper.

The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it's interesting because it looks different each time.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.