I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience. — Raoul Hausmann Copy Share Image
Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles). — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them… — A. D. Patel Copy Share Image
Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract -… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Playboy magazine is now doing a 'Women of Enron' pictorial spread. ... Apparently the only thing these women have left to shred… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing,… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image