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Art Quotes
"We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art."
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"My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative."
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"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows."
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"Motherhood in all its guises and permutations is more art than science."
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"Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories."
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"The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization."
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"I just want to be written about as a normal artist."
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"There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century."
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"The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement."
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"Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents."
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"As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum."
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"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
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"It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see."
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"Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going."
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"Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic."
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"The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance."
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"For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series."
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"People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw."
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"The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors."
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"You don't need to know the purpose as you write, but when you read over something you've written, you should be able to point to any given element-be that a line of dialogue, a descriptive phrase, a plot point-and say why it's there."
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"This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers."
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"Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them."
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"I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer."
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"The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye."
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"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."
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"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is."
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"He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming."
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