Quotes About Perception

You can't create a work without being aware that it will change dependent upon the context or the society where it is developed or consumed.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

You know it doesn't work that way, T. I have to be touching the body or something that belonged to the victim. Photos only give me a paper cut…and the willies. (Simone)

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.

Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.

Microsoft is no longer thought of as the company where the smartest people want to work.

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.

When I listen to my work, I think, what's so inflammatory about it? It's not really that dissonant. A lot of people who used to hate my stuff have come round to it.

We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner.

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so.

In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.