Quotes about art
artist years work-out
Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic Anish Kapoor
artist world roles
We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
art people concerned
One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
art ego ends
I, in the end, make art for myself.
artist architecture mythology
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
art perfect aloof
I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof Ani Difranco
art culture alternatives
There is no alternative. A Democrat is a Republican is a big businessman, and we're all consumers instead of citizens. It just manifests in the culture, in the music, in the art. I feel a little panicky about it.
art powerful dancing
I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.
art media voice
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.
art media flames
Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.
art pain hard-work
I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.
art media water
We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.
art writing thinking
It's art that's taught me to think and to write. Andy Goldsworthy
art lying ephemeral
Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
art land needs
Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
artist lines energy
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
art car gardening
I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.
artist elements splits
Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.
art careers art-is
Art is not a career - it's a life.
art past years
One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
art thinking aging
As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
art mean cities
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
art school mean
When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.
art essence drawing
The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
art years people
My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.
art lying trying
The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.
art light weather
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.
art life-is-short long
Art indeed is long, but life is short. Andrew Marvell
art order land
But planes land and so do I, and suns rise, melting away the grounds cool protection. I am finally free, if only for this moment. And should that be the case, then know that I am throwing a parade in first class as I speak. Art has again saved my life, my love and me. What next? Who really cares? Certainly a toast will be in order. Make mine a double. Andrew McMahon
art competition plagiarism
In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition. Andrew Mason
art thinking people
I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up. Amy Ray
art lines ends
Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line. Amy Lowell
art emotion form
Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.