Art Quotes
-
I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.
-
There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!
-
I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.
-
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
-
Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
-
I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette.
-
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
-
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.
-
When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.
-
If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.
-
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
-
My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!
-
Two powerful women making art together is always really cool.
-
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'
-
I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.
-
Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.
-
Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger."
-
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.
-
The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art
-
There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
-
It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s.
-
Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.
-
President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.
-
We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.
