Quotes About Art

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it.

Summer in the trees! "It is time to strangle several bad poets.

Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.

Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.

I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly.

Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.