Quotes About Art Mediums

#1. Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.

Clement Greenberg

#2. Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

William Webb

#3. I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

Jeff Koons

#4. I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.

ASAP Ferg

#5. My uncle, who's an art teacher, took me under his wing and gave me a really strong foundation in art. I spent summers with him, and he taught me how to draw, how to see, how to mix colors, how to use different mediums and perspective, and so forth.

Kadir Nelson

#6. Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.

Gerhard Richter

#7. The main thing is to be philanthropic in your everyday life. You don't have to have money to do that. You can do it with your time and your energy.

Eva Longoria

#8. I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me.

Gerard Way

#9. No man can put a rope on the past and hope to snub it down. The best thing is to learn to it ride the new trails - Kilkenny

Louis L'Amour

#10. All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

Tom Hodgkinson

#11. Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Chuck Close

#12. Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

Nita Engle

#13. Hearts know nothing of time-not age or length of acquaintance. They know only what they need.

Jayne Rylon

#14. You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Oscar Wilde

#15. When we started Angels & Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.

Tom DeLonge

#16. Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

Camille Pissarro

#17. What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

Francois Truffaut

#18. I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

Terry Gross

#19. Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

David Talbot

#20. One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.

Doug Aitken

#21. An artist's job is to inspire, from the Latin inspirare: to breathe into. The primary function of art is to inspire new thought shaped by emotions using the creative mediums we master - be it painting, music, design, craft, or photography.

Anonymous

#22. The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own order of being, its own units.

Hans Hofmann

#23. The subject comes first, the medium second.

Richard Prince

#24. All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time, and I like it.

Alison Mosshart