Approach Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

If somebody else wants to think it's artistic, well, that's fine. But to me, it's my job. I'm supposed to do it well. If…

— Ken Wahl

All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.

— Helen Levitt

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

— Giorgio Moroder

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a…

— Jeff Koons

I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say.…

— Candida Hofer

I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as…

— Fernando Botero

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

— Jose Parla

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And…

— Lawrence Halprin

There are many things I do where the centre of it is... It's almost more my humanitarian work than art.

— Angelina Jolie

If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things that I…

— Ken Done

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way…

— Thomas Kinkade

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement.…

— Steve Prefontaine