Artwork Quotes

• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Design

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• The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens outside the brain.

  Jules Feiffer

  Writing, Brain, Littles

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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• In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say 'Aha' to an art object, that is a recognition of divinity. And what divinity is it? It is your divinity, which is the only divinity there is. We are all phenomenal manifestations of a divine will to live, and that will and the consciousness of life is one in all of us, and that is what artwork expresses.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Sunset, Divinity

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• Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.

  Todd Solondz

  World, Portal, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Dream, Trying, Landscape

  Source: theendofcollection.wordpress.com

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

  Amy Sedaris

  Wall, Looks, Framed

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

  Camille Paglia

  Dogma, Shock, Importance

  Camille Paglia (2012). “Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars”, p.12, Vintage

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• I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve.

  Nikki Sixx

  Cds, Opening Up, Rocks

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• The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections are your guides - valuable, objective, non-judgmental guides to matters you need to reconsider or develop further.

  David Bayles

  Lying, Imperfection, Matter

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• I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. Its where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artworks sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

  Jessica McNamee

  Aunt, Australia, People

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• There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.

  David Bayles

  Artist, Majority, Care

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.5, Image Continuum Press

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• No matter how good a story is, if you're at a newsstand and you see a lot of comic books, you don't know how good the story is unless you read it. But you can spot the artwork instantly, and you know whether you like the artwork, whether it grabs you or not.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Stories, Matter

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

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• In a sense, the artwork is the most important thing in getting somebody to buy a book. The person probably won't buy a book if he doesn't like the artwork. Once you buy it for the artwork, you hope that the story will also be good.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Important, Stories

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

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• Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy. There was a time I wanted to be like every famous writer that ever lived. I tried to copy styles, reframe information, use similar artwork. I almost drove myself crazy! Now I just do what I do. I have mentors. There are people whose work I admire, but I write the way I write. I eat the way I eat. I dress the way I dress. I can't believe that God made us each so unique only to have us do everything the same way.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Crazy, Believe, Writing

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days And 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength And Personal Growth”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• The meaning of an artwork is changing depending on who's looking at it - depending on what culture, depending on what time, and so forth. It's alive.

  Sarah Morris

  Culture, Alive

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It costs lots of money to make records. It costs lots of money to generate artwork and manufacture and then ship things to people. If it keeps getting stolen, then the band has less ability to come to your town and perform. And that is ultimately what all of us want to do.

  Matt Snell

  People, Cost, Band

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• 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.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Class, Reason, Thesis

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• I really don't want to produce artwork that does not have meaning beyond simple decorative values. I want to use public space to create a public voice, and a public consciousness about the presence of people who are, in fact, the majority of the population but who are not represented in any visual way. By telling their stories we are giving voice to the voiceless and visualizing the whole of the American story.

  Judy Baca

  Simple, Voice, Space

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• People quickly look through things and don't sit and experience. That's a problem with artwork, [because] it's more of an experience than something to quickly look at. It takes a while for everything to unveil itself.

  Ali Banisadr

  People, Looks, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.

  Eric Maisel

  Unique, May, Failing

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.

  JR

  Art, Real, People

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• Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of art. With their business creation, entrepreneurs express their spiritual desire for self-realization, evolutionary passion for self- fulfillment, and creative vision of a new world. The entrepreneur's business is their artwork. The creation of business is as creative as any creation in art. In fact, building a business may be the most creative human activity.

  Yasuhiko Kimura

  Spiritual, Art, Passion

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

  Luc Tuymans

  One Direction, Self, Elements

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• The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and places stands against him as an entity with objectives and values of its own. In turn, since becoming aware of the organized body of artworks as the obstacle to his own aesthetic self-affirmation, the artist is pushed toward anti-intellectualism and willful dismissal of the art of the past.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Past, Self

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.137, University of Chicago Press

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