Artwork Quotes · Page 4

I would never make an artwork that I wouldn't want to make forever. Wouldn't you want to make Trash Humpers [Korine's 2009…

— Josh Smith

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

— Bruce Dickinson

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

— Neil Farber

If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than…

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Camille Paglia

“I love that an idea can be so powerful it doesn't matter whether I've seen the artwork for real or not.”

— Sara Baume

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

— Tyler Cowen

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

— Chuck Palahniuk

You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate…

— Yayoi Kusama

One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would…

— Paul Smith

I started getting tattoos, and the hair would grow back out and grow over a nice piece of artwork that I really…

— Ryan Sheckler

Everything is important to me... Forgetting the small details is not wise when you care so much about your music and band.…

— Rick DeJesus

“The men in black walked back across the field, back to their dry homes, like crows returning to the nest. I trailed…

— Laura Bickle

Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough…

— Cynthia Daignault

I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. It's where intellectually impaired young people can…

— Jessica McNamee

Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork... they will receive my…

— Kurt Schwitters

I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family,…

— Bill Walton

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know…

— Agnes Martin

'Sword and Sworcery' takes you into a world of mystery and music. With sword and shield in hand, the one thing you…

— Rob Manuel

True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate…

— Richard Wagner

“She made amazing artwork. While I focused on the absurd, trying to make the strangest juxtapositions possible, her work was delicate and…

— Jarod Kintz

I wanted to make an artwork that really underlined the contradiction between how machines see and how humans see. Because music is…

— Trevor Paglen

Even when I was with Arista records, which was the freest part of my career, you still have to run a lot…

— Pam Tillis

I told myself I'd do well by using the experience I gained during my seven years as Big Bang. In my mind,…

— Seungri

In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give…

— Stan Lee

“It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with he frame than with the artwork itself.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert…

— Dan Brown

I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.

— Zara Phillips

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can…

— Dan Colen

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

— Swizz Beatz

I like walking into the studio everyday and having completely custom, diverse artwork to do. And my clients keep the interesting ideas…

— William Webb

Its funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than with the artwork itself.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.

— David Bayles

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

— Frank Ocean

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

— Jill Soloway

I have been asked to collaborate with fashion houses using my artwork, which I will probably do.

— Helmut Lang

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

— Janet Echelman

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

— Josh Smith

To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be…

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Luc Tuymans