Art Quote by Kiki Smith Download Open image “Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.” — Kiki Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Energy Happens Ifs Inspirational Making Art Seeing
In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself. — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point, and you… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes the viewer… — Stephen Huneck Copy Share Image
Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know. — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical,… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer, so you… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not moving from an ideological standpoint. Sometimes I'm trying to make my life better. Sometimes I'm trying to make my life worse! I'm… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image