Visual Art Quotes

61 Visual Art quotes by 60 unique authors

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. — Eugenio Montale
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you… — Dan Rice
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up… — John Dos Passos
Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than to be talked… — Mati Klarwein
I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art. — Sia Furler
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do. — Carrie Brownstein
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't… — Jonathan Lethem
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors. — Dar Williams
Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on… — John Walford
As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely… — John Walford
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught… — Gavin Bryars
I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored… — Darren Aronofsky
My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive. — Charles Gwathmey
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. — J. Carter Brown
Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well. — Marketa Irglova
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

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