Best 84 quotes in «artwork quotes» category

The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they are real and true they come to the painting with everything they know and feel and live, and all the things they don't know, and some of the things they hope, and they are honest about them all and put them on the canvas. What can be more serious?

There seemed to be as much written about the art, and what the dialogue meant, as the paintings themselves. Clement Greenburg had been the first of many. It drove her crazy, the convoluted doubletalk of artist and medium and historian. Though she loved the process of creation and the images themselves, she found it difficult to put her thoughts into words.

THE VERITY THAT TWO PEOPLE OUT OF THE MILLIONS AROUND THEM CAN MEET AND ADHERE AND BECOME BOSOM FRIENDS, SEEMS LIKE ENCHANTMENT TO ME. BUT MAINTAINING A FRIENDSHIP REQUIRES (HARD-WORK). I DON'T MEAN THAT AS A BAD THING. GOOD ARTWORK REQUIRES EFFORT AS WELL.

We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word. And each time they make one of these choices, they are taken further from the truth. But what we aren’t told is that this isn’t a shortcoming of translation; it’s a shortcoming of language itself. As soon as we try to put reality into words, we limit it. Words are not reality, they are the cause of reality, and thus reality is always more. Writers aren't alchemists who transmute words into the aurous essence of the human experience. No, they are glassmakers. They create a work of art that enables us to see inside to help us understand. And if they are really good, we can see our own reflections staring back at us.

They paint what they see and we paint what we are watching.

You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.

yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares...

You were born an original work of art. Stay original.

Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe.

You can not lie in your paintings, because you cannot hide from yourself.

All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.

All my album artwork is body painting.

All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

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

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?

Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.

CD's are amazing because you get the artwork, you get to look at the lyrics, you get to look at the behind-the-scenes photos or something.

I found being able to change things on the fly and react to the changes in the artwork makes it stronger. And I feel like I'm not doing the job twice.

Gift-wrap the framed artwork on your walls and rehang them - what's nicer than a wall of presents to look at?

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

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

I always see these landscapes in my dreams, and feel happy. I desperately try to transform these dreams into artwork, so that even while napping, I construct and reconstruct various images.

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

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

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

I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.

I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.

In putting everyone else down, I am raising myself up... and this will continue until my self-esteem rises. I have just sorted out the mystery of why I am always putting down everybody else's artwork.

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

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

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

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.

One of the reasons I picked Pacifica was because, for a lot of classes and for your thesis, you could do artwork because of the Jungian slant of it all, and that really called to me.

Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than to be talked about. I think I belong in the latter category.

It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign.

Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.

Some people leave artwork, some people do rude things, other people then turn those rude things into nice things.

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

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

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

When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.

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

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

All the aesthetic anarchy of our day is caused by more international artillery than by international paintings.