Quotes About Observation

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.

We do have to be a witness to our art.

Art has to be reflective of our society.

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.