Art Quote by Roy DeCarava Download Open image “The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.” — Roy DeCarava ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist History Inspirational Looks Materials
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical.… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I always thought that art that is produced somehow has to reflect the zeitgeist or the ambiance and the time and the history in which it is produced. I think it's inescapable. It's like we look back now, at work done savoring the thirties, and you can almost tell it was done during that period of time. Now maybe, that's… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it. — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s… — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines… — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future. — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me. — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject. — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen. — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone… — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself. — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system… — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological. — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for… — Roy DeCarava 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
