Art Quote by Chuck Close

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

— Mike Thompson

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them,…

— Tori Amos

I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.

— Arshile Gorky

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

— Miuccia Prada

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

— William Eggleston

I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as…

— Fernando Botero

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

— Fred Tomaselli

I like visual imagery in my head.

— Stephen Malkmus

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

— Don Ed Hardy

I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without Men.' I…

— Siri Hustvedt

I look at everything in an artistic way.

— Tony Curtis

What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I…

— Ursus Wehrli