Quotes About Perception

Attention is the material I work with.

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.

In my opinion in art nothing can go too far as long as you don't physically hurt people or animals. Art is there to push boundaries. I love it when my work freaks people out but it's all fake!

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

[My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at the time we knew Hans, his work was nothing like that.

If continually people look and look and always come away enriched, then it's a great work

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.

There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.

Don't rush your legs to feed your greed. They will rush to judge you as the greedy one.

Wisdom is the ability to see the invisible

You can'tassume i'min bad shapejust becausei've run out ofthe energy toimpressyou.

Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.

If people call your work perceptible, be it in positive or negative terms, do ask them about what made them draw that conclusion.