Top 1200 Visual Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they paint shadows in European art? Shadows are because of optics. Optics need shadows and strong light. Strong light makes the deepest shadows. It took me a few years to realize fully that the art historians didn't grasp that. There are a lot of interesting new things, ideas, pictures.

I'm photographing all the time. I'm such a visual person and I don't want to miss that moment.

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.

I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

'Sanam Re' is an amalgamation of an emotional love story and a visual treat.

I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

Video games are perfect to make into films because they are so visual.

My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.

It's always a challenge to adapt a novel for screen, a visual medium.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

I like visual arts, and what I love doing is participating in the making of it.

People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there was a new configuration of bourgeois values in the U.S. and an acceptance among the bourgeoisie of contemporary art as an idea. I think that bourgeois people are horrible.

Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.

I don't take lessons in art. It all comes from the heart, and sure I'd love to study art! In school I come across one thing I do and I want to study that in college. I love history, I love science, I love art, I love grammar, I love literature!

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so easy, literature on art never so profuse, and works of art never so widely distributed, a real passion for pictures is encountered but rarely.

Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self-image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them.

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

It seems like the big difference between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind the text. It's got something to do with love, with having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.

Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.

Reading makes me so sleepy. Honestly, I'm a visual learner.

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.

Our live shows are a visual as well as a musical experience.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

There is research proving that deaf people have increased visual abilities.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

I had no visual imagination as a child. I liked playing football. That was it.

I like visual layers, stylistically, that's something I enjoy and seek to do.

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is a similarity between her operations and man's art even in the details and trifles. When the overhanging pine drops into the water, by the sun and water, and the wind rubbing it against the shore, its boughs are worn into fantastic shapes, and white and smooth, as if turned in a lathe. Man's art has wisely imitated those forms into which all matter is most inclined to run, as foliage and fruit.

I was a Fine Art major. You do a bit of everything until the final year, when you specialise. I did pencil drawing and sculpture. It's a pretty well-rounded fine art education. I thought that it was viable option to make a living out of art. I'm not sure if I was thinking realistically; maybe I never was. But it had great appeal.

All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.

I remember saying to myself those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative. Art is also about beauty. And if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.

I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.

Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this trend. We have to create a new kind of art, a new kind of creativity. We have to bring to the world again what Gurdjieff calls objective art.

We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.

Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or '92 I saw one of those Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled billboards. I was just really arrested by it. It was kind of my first foray into contemporary art. It was a turning point for me as to what art could be and what it meant and the impact it could have.

When people think of a Hitchcock movie, it isn't just the visual, it's the sound.