Quotes About Choice

Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.

We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have done it.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.