Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures…

Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture…

— Gerhard Richter

A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater…

— Gerhard Richter

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

— Chuck Berry

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards,…

— Tony Kaye

During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved…

— Thomas A. Edison

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

— E. F. Schumacher

I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort…

— Walker Evans

“In the past a theory could get by on its beauty; in the modern world a successful theory has to work for a living.”

— Howard Wainer

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

— Abbas Kiarostami

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

— Lana Del Rey

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol…

— Oscar Wilde

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

— Luis Bunuel

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write…

— Damien Hirst

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

— Bernard Berenson

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work…

— Marcel Duchamp