Best 84 quotes in «artwork quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

As in zoology, monsters exist in art. It is the pervert of the formation of words, lines, colors, and sounds.

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.

You never really get to touch anything that you're doing unless you print it out. I don't really enjoy making artwork on a computer because it doesn't seem like I've done anything.

Art is like hard digging. Without daily searching, nothing can be found.

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

Artwork can be consumed for ages. The people and the state can be proud of it. That is why it is incorrect to stimulate something that has no real value.

By means of art, man values the value of his worldview and the event. With it, the man moves to the ground and phosphoresces at the darkness of reality, illuminating his dark path with its splendor, like a magical dark-eyed eye, so it moves between the stars and so lives.

A wedding is a series of special moments, strung together like beads on a chain. Sure, by themselves, they are lovely, but put them all together and you get art.

Can you really see different things in a painting from day to day?" This seemed to genuinely interest the duke. She wasn't certain which part of it fascinated him most, the fact that a painting could change or that she thought it could. "Well, it isn't like a crystal ball. Whereby you see shifting images and the like. But haven't you ever looked at a painting for a length of time, or on more than one occasion, and experienced it differently each time?" Where to begin explaining art to someone who seemed to know nothing about it? Now, if she were dancing with Harry... "Of course. As a young man touring the Continent, I once looked at 'length' at a painting called 'Venus and Mars' by an Italian painter called Veronese. Do you know it? Venus is nude as the day she was born, and Mars is entirely clothed and down on his knees in front of her, and it looks as though Mars is about to give her a pleasuring. And there are cherubs hanging about. I looked at it for quite some time." A... pleasuring. 'God above.' He had her attention now. She was speechless. Everything was astonishing about what he'd just said. She stared up at him, her mind exploding with vivid images, her cheeks going increasingly hotter. She knew the painting. She knew 'precisely' where Mars was kneeling in front of Venus. The duke had said it purposely. Suddenly she was acutely aware of her five senses, as though they were blinking on, one by one, like fireflies in the dark. Most particularly vivid was touch. She was potently aware of his hands: the one resting with firm assurance against her waist, warm there now through the fine silk of her gown, the other enfolding hers. She was acutely aware of his size, and everything that was masculine to her feminine. Goodness. He could certainly look at her for a long time without blinking.

If life can be a work of art, then what are the works of art?