Quotes About Art

The sexual is part of everything, and it's highly formalized. I hadn't done figure for a long time. And I thought to myself, "Why not the erotic figure?"

Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often the time when it looks like anything but.

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.

The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time.

I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.

I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same time, it doesn't mean I'm not going to try and do that some day.

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?

Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.

I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.