Visual Art Quotes - Page 5

• I was at a time of my life of making choices, I suppose: am I a writer, am I a visual artist? And when I was a teenager. I thought I would be a film-maker. Am I a musician? If so, what kind of musician am I?

  David Toop

  Teenager, Artist, Choices

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life.

  Matt Sorum

  Art, Creating, Film

  "Guns and Roses Matt Sorum on Passion and Compassion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but I knew I wanted to do something in the visual arts. And I'd always been around my dad's film sets, so the interest was there. But I didn't have the guts to say, "I want to be a director," especially coming from that family.

  Sofia Coppola

  Art, Dad, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.

  Nick Cave

  Struggle, Artist, Museums

  Interview with Tori Bush, dailyserving.com. December 4, 2015.

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• We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

  Nick Cave

  Artist, Needs, Social

  Interview with Tori Bush, www.dailyserving.com. December 4, 2015.

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• Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts, or poetry, a lot of those elements can come and help you, can trigger your creativity. But you have to be open, be aware, and you have to be ready to look.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, Creativity, Tools

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think every writer has their waves of inspiration and their ways of doing things. But writing is very difficult for me. It's something I haven't practiced as diligently as my visual art. I've been doing visual art because I think it's easier for me to construct, whereas words are very difficult.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, Inspiration, Writing

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books. We were always the ones that read the most books in class. I thought about writing but visual arts weren't part of my vocabulary.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked, "Would it be possible to incorporate visual art?" My sister stitches pillowcases, which led to Mary suggesting using cyanotype on them. I originally thought of the idea of pillowcases because when people get married, they have the bride and the groom lay their hands on each other's pillows while their relatives tie ribbons on their wrists. And then on the bed you usually have two pillows - one for yourself and one for your loved one - so when one is gone, one pillow remains.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, New York, Hands

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual artist Ann Hamilton.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Artist, Eight, California

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.

  Faith Ringgold

  Art, Believe, Sacrifice

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• In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Art, New York, School

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.

  Bonnie McKee

  Fashion, Writing, Artist

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing "Roar," and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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• In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature — both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of the preceding civilisations which had produced it.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Teacher, Art, Book

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• I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in a field where I really do get to have long conversations with the visual artists, the actors, the musicians. It's all art forms rolled into one and I feel very fortunate to be a part of it.

  Susan Stroman

  Art, Unique, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute film then a full-length feature. In those 15 minutes you have the opportunity to express your voice as an artist and hopefully connect with your audience. If you are trying to be a first time feature director then a short film that demonstrates you have a grasp on the themes and concepts of the movie you want to direct is a no-brainer. Whether they are collaborators or potential investors, filmmaking is a visual art form so you obviously need visuals to show them!

  Nicholas Ozeki

  Art, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I had no special training at all; I am completely self-taught. I don’t fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is – someone who designs projects to make people happy. That’s his purpose.

  Toru Iwatani

  Art, Strong, Self

  "Toru Iwatani, 1986 PacMan Designer". Interview with Susan Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

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• When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.

  Taika Waititi

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.

  Nicolas Provost

  Artist, Sound, Cinema

  Source: filmmakermagazine.com

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• Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads to creative manifestation in form and color. With that in mind, it might be suggested that the visual artist, - from commercial designer to fine art painter - has much to do with most things that enter your everyday visuals, and thus form a major portion of one's reality and, certainly, how this culture manifests and evolves.

  Robert Venosa

  Art, Reality, Color

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• When I was really young, I gravitated towards the visual arts first. I feel that's what comes most naturally to me. I've always had an immediate proclivity towards making visual art and I was a really tactile kid.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Art, Kids, Firsts

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• In the visual arts, for example, the semiological approach to graphics provides a rigorous analysis of the visual means used by the artist. It defines the basic properties and laws governing the arts and suggests objective criteria for art criticism.

  Jacques Bertin

  Art, Mean, Law

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• How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."

  Aaron Scharf

  Photography, Art, Past

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• I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

  Russell Banks

  Reading, Artist, Boys

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• I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.

  Tori Amos

  Art, Book, Hearing Things

  "Tori Amos on Lauren Bacall, religion, and cleaning latrines". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2015.

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