Visual Art Quotes

61 quotes by 60 authors

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite… — David Bowie
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't… — William S. Burroughs
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone… — Ian Anderson
I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And… — Jared Leto
As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body.Â I… — Del LaGrace Volcano
At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking… — Laurie Anderson
Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young… — Ilya Ehrenburg
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. — Julia Morgan
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. — Yahoo Serious
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and… — Shirley Hazzard
But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of… — Buffy Sainte-Marie
A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community. — Martin O'Malley
Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of… — Jeff Mathews
Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be… — Ernest L. Boyer
God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 31 remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create in his name.… — Philip Graham Ryken
I had no special training at all; I am completely self taught. I don't fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic… — Toru Iwatani
It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking… — Ville Valo
In the visual arts, for example, the semiological approach to graphics provides a rigorous analysis of the visual means used by the artist. It defines… — Jacques Bertin
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness… — Aaron Scharf
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. — Thomas F. Wilson

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