Visual Arts Quotes

38 Visual Arts quotes by 36 unique 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
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
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
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
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
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
Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination. — Barbara Januszkiewicz
Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer. — Kenneth Anger
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. — Eugenio Montale
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
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
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
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
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. — J. Carter Brown
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
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

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