Art Reference Quotes

#1. I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.

Sebastiao Salgado

#2. There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.

Joe Bradley

#3. In reference to Einstein's definition of insanity...
No Mr. Einstein, that is not insanity, that is autism.

Eileen Miller

#4. I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like third-grade art projects.

Mark Grotjahn

#5. I'm a mother! So I am more conscious of what I wear. Because when I was younger I would wear just about anything - and I would always show my belly. I mean, I still do that now when I perform, but it's just done more in a tasteful manner.

Britney Spears

#6. One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.

Peter Schmidt

#7. Kim stayed for as long as she could stand it but, in the end, decided that the entire industry had a perennial dose of priapism, and moved on.

Jane Horan

#8. The QSM Software Almanac is an invaluable resource. It establishes a norm for software projects, including best of class, worst of class and averages. In addition, it profiles the state of the art of software construction and enhancement. I wish I'd had this wonderful reference book years ago.

Tom DeMarco

#9. What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history.
(In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')

Paul Murray Kendall

#10. Everything is relative but there is a standard which must not be deviated from, especially with reference to the basic culinary preparations. A. Escoffier The Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery

Michael Ruhlman

#11. For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

#12. The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by which man affirms his mental scheme, and these symbols, be they pictorial or mathematical, a fable or formula, will reflect the same changes.

Kenneth Clark

#13. Comedy is like expensive cheese. Well, it's like cheese, in general. Everybody likes what they like, and everything they don't like, they think is the worst.

W. Kamau Bell

#14. In short, the persons we see most clearly are not necessarily those we know best.

Anthony Powell

#15. A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

Oscar Wilde

#16. Run to the rescue with love/and peace will follow

River Phoenix

#17. I originally started GoPro with the sole purpose of helping surfers capture photos of themselves and their friends while they were surfing. I thought it was crazy that very few surfers had any photos or videos of themselves.

Nick Woodman

#18. For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport that which is "grave and constant" (Joyce's epithets) in the mystery of our condition.

George Steiner

#19. Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

Christopher Paolini

#20. Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training.

Peter Agre

#21. You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

Anton Chekhov

#22. A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

Robert Genn

#23. Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

Allan Sekula

#24. As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

Oscar Wilde

#25. I have written stories since I was a child.

Rachel Joyce

#26. That's why they call it a dream, Tone. Because it'll never be a reality.

Julie Anne Peters

#27. I'm a bit of a glutton - I eat too much of all that is good to eat.

Rene Redzepi

#28. As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

William Harvey

#29. I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

Stephen Moyer

#30. Flying is an art of absorbing the information from more than one reference, primary and secondary, and then using this information to decide how to manipulate the controls to achieve a desired result. The altimeter is the secondary reference for determining if the nose attitude is correct.

Jerry Eichenberger

#31. I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn't the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.

Michael Heizer

#32. Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.

Lewis H. Lapham

#33. After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Arthur Erickson

#34. When I think about the reference to baroque, I'm most interested in how art was integrated into domestic life. That's why I like fresco, because fresco is part of the wall. It's art, but it's decoration at the same time.

Camille Henrot

#35. Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else
that's how you'll get ahead.

Austin Kleon