You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and... →
Chuck Close
You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much... →
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's... →
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
Daniel Clowes
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become... →
Jean Cocteau
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.