Top 29 Art Description Quotes
#1. The main difference between commissioned work and work I do for myself is that if I'm doing for myself, I don't have to worry about sticking to an art description or working for a specific audience or project.
Julie Dillon
#2. I want people to see an honesty within me. I'm not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding.
Leon Bridges
#3. I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work. I guess in the art world I'm not exactly a photographer, but I do use photography.
John Waters
#4. There are many instances when one person is enough to change the world.
Stephen Richards
#5. A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.
John Updike
#6. Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description.
Charles Stross
#8. Wednesday walked out into the firelight, a big old man with a glass eye in a brown suit and an old Armani coat.
Neil Gaiman
#9. 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 the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
Chuck Close
#10. Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
Robert Genn
#11. When you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself.
Scott McCloud
#12. your level of engagement and enthusiasm will skyrocket when you decide to participate only in projects you can be fully invested in and be a part of from beginning to end.
Brendon Burchard
#13. It's always up to other people to say if something is art. I hate it when people say, "I'm an artist." I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think "artist" is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work.
John Waters
#14. College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
P. J. O'Rourke
#15. When their eyes connected she tilted her head slightly ... paused, and smiled. It was as if she needed to see him at a different angle to insure that her instant desire wasn't a vanishing mirage
Carl Henegan
#16. An art dies when it describes itself instead of life - when it turns from the expression of man's feelings in the void, to a mere description of the void.
Jack Kerouac
#17. It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence of encountering the world. A fuller description of the task would be to say our aim is to discover what happens to us as we consider things.
Peter London
#18. I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist, then art is what you do, whether or not you're paid for doing it; it is what you do, not what you are. I regard artist not as a description of temperament but as a category of profession, of vocation.
Tony Kushner
#19. I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think ...
John Green
#20. Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#21. Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#22. This Diwali ... Don't just light up the Sky, but stop someone Cry. Don't just eat Sweets, but share your Love on the Streets. Don't just buy Gold, but help someone who is Helpless and Old.-RVM
R.v.m.
#23. Arguments should be about understanding other people better, sharing ideas and finding mutually beneficial ways ahead.
Jonathan Herring
#24. The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
Camille Paglia
#25. I don't remember her. But she feels special. There's this hole in my heart every time I draw her; you know, a sick sort of feeling. Like she's someone I lost.
C. Robert Cargill
#26. Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at some good: for which reason a common and by no means a bad description of the Chief Good is, that which all things aim at.
Aristotle.
#29. Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.
Alexander Stoddart
