“Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.”
Quotes about art
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“To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.”
“My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.”
“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”
“Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.”
“I think about my work every minute of the day.”
“By the work one knows the workman.”
“Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.”
“My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.”
“The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.”
“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”
“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.”
“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.”
“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”
“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.”
“Trying to force creativity is never good.”
“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”
“When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.”
“Vision is the true creative rhythm.”
“No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.”
“The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.”
“In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.”
“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
“I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.”