Quotes About Perception

The IMPP work was already very important. The recent AOL action might reinforce public perception that a standard is needed, but I think the public already realized this.

That's how I feel about the work. The work is solid, the work exists and will stay the same, but if you can have it playing and interacting with light, then it will always be different.

I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

There are always a lot of leading questions and opinions. Of course, our work is creative, and it's subjective.

I think that when you are famous, it can work against you, people have preconceptions about your image.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.

The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.

It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.

One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.

I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem. But we never hear that side of the story.

Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me.

Do you work at the grocery store? Then why are you checking me out?

I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

Everybody was inspired by the drawings and the wind tunnels and the race cars - but no one wanted to work with me because I had a reputation for being an aerodynamic dictator!

You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

I didn't want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, "This looks good!".

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?