Visual Quotes

620 quotes by 523 authors

It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes… — David Hockney
The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really… — Mary Ellen Mark
Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well. — Robert Henri
Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and… — Damien Hirst
Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards. — Damien Hirst
The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations. — Ben Shahn
Every act is a visual judgement. — Rudolf Arnheim
I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space. — Richard Artschwager
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by… — Clement Greenberg
It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved… — Clement Greenberg
The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a… — Barbara Kruger
The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without… — Sol LeWitt
Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at… — Daniel H. Pink
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility… — Jerry Saltz
A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro… — Joan Miro
I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art. — Steve Mann
The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest. — Dean Mitchell
The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas… — Gyorgy Kepes
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse. — Robert Genn
What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it… — Richard Schmid

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