Visual Art Quotes

61 Visual Art quotes by 60 unique authors

It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing. — Deanna Petherbridge
There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and power: through music… — Ernst Boris Chain
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
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
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
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 art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state… — Joseph Plaskett
Visual artists choreograph dances for the eyes, guiding visual journeys in specific ways. But when presented with little or nothing, the journeys of the eyes… — John Paul Caponigro
Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual… — David Byrne
I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally. — Dave Matthews
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been… — Camille Paglia
There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual… — Steven Pinker
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character… — Will Self
I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and… — Rudy Giuliani
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary. — Aberjhani
Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. — Douglas Coupland
I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is… — Lawrence Weschler
In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago. — Tim Crouch
Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music,… — Ryan Kavanaugh

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