Art Quote by Patricia Piccinini Download Open image “Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.” — Patricia Piccinini ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art world Bits Fine Fine art Fine arts Materials Traditional Use World
I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for use. And… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic, dental acrylic,… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work. — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen backdrops, but… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I've been creating work by silk-screening images of arms and legs and heads and objects on paper - like drawings of vegetables, guns, hats,… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper. — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
It's challenging and interesting for me to work on projects that are unique and unconventional. I'm so bored with seeing the same recycled material. — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
We did have one work where it looked like the fibreglass was discolouring, but it turned out it was reacting to the foam it… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
In the studio we spend a lot of time working our what materials will work best and also last. We do tests and come… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
I have been interested in visual arts since high school and, after realising that I had absolutely no interest in the economics degree I… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution. — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
In one hundred years time people will look back and think 'these people were really worried about the environment, they were looking at things… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with. — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
For me it is a matter of respect for the ideas in the work and the people who look at them. I absolutely hate… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
A child came up to me and asked 'am I dreaming?' I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of South Australia… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil. — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Now that other people have my works, it's really important to me that what they have has longevity. — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic, dental acrylic,… — Patricia Piccinini 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