Top 322 Artwork Quotes & Sayings

Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.

Fans are hungry for original artwork.

I think the term "artist's novel" for me has referred to writing which supports an art practice or a more specifically a particular artwork or project. The nonfiction novellas and nonfiction novel I have written play a role in my artwork as objects - which I will return to, but I write the books to exist autonomously.

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

All my album artwork is body painting.

The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.

Artwork is super-important, that's why my videos are the way they are.

I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.

The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that's watching it: What do you take out of it?

I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.

I always hope that the artwork will complement and enrich a story.

For me, each book is kind of like a silent film. If you were to remove the words and just look at the pictures, you should be able to tell what the story is about without having to read a word of text. That's what I think I brought from doing artwork for film to doing artwork for books.

I could never live without artwork. It's a constant inspiration.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that M. Dirda is a sucker for anything bookish in the way of artwork.

From tours to mixing, mastering, graphics, artwork - I've done out of pocket.

To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the process: the experiences of shaping that artwork. The viewers' concerns are not your concerns (although it'd dangerously easy to adopt their attitudes.) Their job is wahtever it is: to be moved by art, to be entertained by it, to make a killing off it, whatever. Your job is to learn to work on your work.

As I get older and more mature, my artwork changes accordingly.

The digital artwork is characterized not by the technology which delivers it, but by the "passage" itself.

I have been asked to collaborate with fashion houses using my artwork, which I will probably do.

I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.

There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.

For artists, we're always looking for approval. We're putting our artwork out there and saying, 'What do you think?'

If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I adore the feel of them, the care taken in the artwork, and the high visual stimulation that sets off the simple but often powerful message the text conveys.

Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to preform a particular function.

I was really into artwork in high school and my art teacher made it clear to me that it's not really a career. She insisted that if I wanted to make a living this way, I would have to find a career that might actually reward me for the artwork.

In a sense, the artwork is the most important thing in getting somebody to buy a book. The person probably won't buy a book if he doesn't like the artwork. Once you buy it for the artwork, you hope that the story will also be good.

I really enjoy sculpting, like wood carving, and do artwork.

The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also a way of advertising yourself. Selection, order, the lettering you used for the track list, how much technical detail you went into, whether or not you added artwork or offered only artwork and no track list at all, these choices were as codified as a Victorian bouquet.

The artwork for the record is kind of an homage to that. It's a collage, which rhymes with homage, I just realized. It's an homage to this kind of almost like a teenager's idea of what the future might look like, if he were using a Xerox machine and cut-and-pasting it together. Which is exactly what we did to come up with the artwork.

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

I try to just put a blank stage in front of them, and say, "This is your space; you tell me where you're coming from and where you're going." At a certain point, it was interesting as the project started to become what it is now, The Source, which has a physical installation and also an online presence. As we started building the installation, I started thinking, "It's really strange that we're building this installation, this piece of architecture you can go into." It's almost strange because I suppose it's an artwork, but it's an artwork that's really constructed out of ideas.

I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

If you steal my artwork, you will pay. In cash.

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

There is the artwork that you physically make but there's also the journey that happens on the inside.

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. That's why they call it artWORK!

I love that fans feel comfortable enough to send us their artwork.

I love art, but I've never bought an artwork or even considered it.

I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

Using what you have always enhances what's to come no matter if it's an album, song, artwork or whatever.

I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.

Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level, there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to perform a particular function.

There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.

If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional.

Most of my artwork is geared towards being humorous in some light.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

No matter how good a story is, if you're at a newsstand and you see a lot of comic books, you don't know how good the story is unless you read it. But you can spot the artwork instantly, and you know whether you like the artwork, whether it grabs you or not.

Artwork, films, TV - it's always informed my work, no matter what I'm working on.

I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork.

They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork.

My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.

I'm an unabashed fan of 'The New Yorker.' I do feel proud when I see my artwork in there.

Whenever I work on an album and the time comes to do all the artwork, the only thing I think of is the LP artwork. When we worked on the 'Electric Trim' artwork, we spent weeks and weeks making the LP artwork great, and then the CD artwork came together in a day or two. The LP is what's important to me.

I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me card »">birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

I really love Instagram for the artwork.

I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.