Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anselm Kiefer

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

Anselm Kiefer

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.

Anselm Kiefer

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

Anselm Kiefer

Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God

Anselm Kiefer

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

Anselm Kiefer

Buying art is not understanding art.

Anselm Kiefer

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

Anselm Kiefer

Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.

Anselm Kiefer

As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and say, how can I paint like them? You have to be obsessed by something that can't come out in any other way, then the other things - the skill and technique - will follow.

Anselm Kiefer

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

Anselm Kiefer

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

Ansel Adams

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

Ansel Adams

It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.

Ansel Adams

There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

Ansel Adams

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Ansel Adams

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

Ansel Adams

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

Ansel Adams

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

Ansel Adams

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

Ansel Adams

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Ansel Adams

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Ansel Adams

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.

Ansel Adams

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Anne Archer

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

Anne Bradstreet

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

Angelina Jolie

Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It's what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.

Angelina Jolie

I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.

Angelina Jolie

It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.

Andrew Bernstein

Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or create man-glorifying art, pioneer scientific knowledge or invent the electric light, independent thinkers have created the goods on which human life and prosperity depend.

Andrew Bird

I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form, and then they got a lot of attention in Europe. A lot of bands that can't catch flies in the US have these followings in Europe, [but] it's less and less the case. American audiences are way more sophisticated and adventurous than anyone thinks that they are.

Andrea Thompson

I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.

Andrea Riseborough

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

Andreas Gursky

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.