Quotes About Artwork

#1. I'm a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative.

Marco Brambilla

#2. I'm an unabashed fan of 'The New Yorker.' I do feel proud when I see my artwork in there.

Adrian Tomine

#3. The adventurous state of mind is a high house ... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.

Agnes Martin

#4. I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism.

Graham Coxon

#5. He was beautiful, like looking at a favorite piece of artwork. Not something one can own, but something in a faraway museum, where she would have to go halfway around the world, push through crowds on people, just to catch a glimpse of his unreal splendor.

Caroline Hanson

#6. Practicing art is a meditation; an artwork is an insight.

William Ash

#7. I'm very hands on with my music - I do all the artwork and everything myself - and the songs I write aren't necessarily the most commercial.

Courtney Barnett

#8. What I liked about it is in the world of children, there are very, very different rules and a kind of naivete and innocence and sweetness that's been beautifully captured, I think, by this film as you can even see [gesturing toward the film's poster on display nearby] from this gorgeous artwork.

Russell Brand

#9. The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens outside the brain.

Jules Feiffer

#10. When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.

Aloe Blacc

#11. I started getting tattoos, and the hair would grow back out and grow over a nice piece of artwork that I really wanted to show, and it just became one of those things. I can't stand the hair on my body. I just wanted it gone. It's just a better feeling for me.

Ryan Sheckler

#12. Using what you have always enhances what's to come no matter if it's an album, song, artwork or whatever.

B.J. The Chicago Kid

#13. By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.

Eric Drooker

#14. The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Bruce Dickinson

#15. I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

Edward Burtynsky

#16. With the new game I'm going to be involved from the ground up. I have had story input and the whole thing will have my imprint on it. Even if I don't hands-on do every bit of artwork, I certainly will direct the look of the whole thing.

Dave Gibbons

#17. I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level.

Jacob Hashimoto

#18. I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

Swizz Beatz

#19. For me, each book is kind of like a silent film. If you were to remove the words and just look at the pictures, you should be able to tell what the story is about without having to read a word of text. That's what I think I brought from doing artwork for film to doing artwork for books.

Kadir Nelson

#20. And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting.

Joseph Campbell

#21. By the time his political career began, he was in command of an artwork of lies elaborate enough to support his smallest need. He could shave the truth by a hair or subvert it altogether.

Norman Mailer

#22. There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.

David Bayles

#23. Some people leave artwork, some people do rude things, other people then turn those rude things into nice things.

Peter Molyneux

#24. Daniel's desk by the window is piled high with his drawings. The artwork is everything. He thinks of himself as the act of drawing. His body of work is his life, it is his continuity. The drawings show outwardly that inner place where he is still alive, a thread to connect him with the world.

J.J. Brown

#25. It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign.

Josh Smith

#26. My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

Eli Broad

#27. In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Damien Hirst

#28. The letters that say 'I'm getting the messages you're sending me through the television screen' are not great. But those are few and far between, thank God. I get wonderful letters, and people send me artwork.

Stephen Colbert

#29. For even the best artwork is a static thing of the eye alone, and words are by their nature linear.

Marie Brennan

#30. The thing that weighs the most on how your final artwork turns out is the amount of time you have and the speed at which you can move.

Jim Lee

#31. My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

Janet Echelman

#32. I love fashion and appreciate it so much, and I feel like it's moving artwork going down a runway.

Brittany Snow

#33. My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.

Barry McGee

#34. There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show.

Nic Pizzolatto

#35. I have 17 full-time archivists working for me who put away in books all the diversity of artwork I do, from drawing to etching to monotypes to prints to lithographs.

Peter Max

#36. I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

Tony Jaa

#37. I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. It's where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artwork's sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

Jessica McNamee

#38. Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Jane Seymour

#39. Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork ... they will receive my new work als they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn.

Kurt Schwitters

#40. The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.

Banksy

#41. Even when I was with Arista records, which was the freest part of my career, you still have to run a lot of stuff by committee whether it's a budget, or the album artwork, or how may songs you get to record. This was total freedom. We had nobody to answer to. We didn't have to get anything approved.

Pam Tillis

#42. I found being able to change things on the fly and react to the changes in the artwork makes it stronger. And I feel like I'm not doing the job twice.

David Finch

#43. Sure, but don't expect great observations. Mostly I just looked for dirty pictures hidden within the artwork. Did you know Monet put a boob in all his paintings? Apples and Grapes - get it? I mean, come on. The guy was a horn-dog.

Penny Reid

#44. The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

Kara Walker

#45. She mourns the stillbirth of anything that craves to be born. It doesn't have to be a child. It can be an artwork, an idea, or a miscarried love.

Tor Udall

#46. I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

Chris Martin

#47. With the 'Watchmen' comic, we attempted to tell it in an accessible way. I deliberately made the artwork very clear, deceptively so. You think you're sucking on a sweetie, but it turns out to be a sugar-coated chili.

Dave Gibbons

#48. First arrested last July after distributing digital files containing a 3D scan of her genitalia to people in return for donations to her project to create the unusual artwork.

Anonymous

#49. It is interesting to ask why people who come to view art suddenly posture themselves as full of righteousness. It's as if my artwork suddenly lends a higher moral ground to everyone else in the Thai art world.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#50. Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

Agnes Martin

#51. I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.

Zara Phillips

#52. All my album artwork is body painting.

Kimbra

#53. I could never live without artwork. It's a constant inspiration.

Narciso Rodriguez

#54. I'm always in awe of directors because they're just holding so much stuff in the air. They've got so many decisions that they need to be making and they have to have the complete overall look of what the piece of artwork is.

Dominic Cooper

#55. The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

Susan Sullivan

#56. I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.

Jill Scott

#57. Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to involve people. It's a whole process. And I like that. For me, that's where the artwork is.

JR

#58. Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Robert Rodriguez

#59. This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God.

Noah Cicero

#60. Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention of catering to them. I think part of the reason my work is attractive to people like that is because it doesn't cater to them.

Robert Crumb

#61. All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.

Gotye

#62. I feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming from whatever corners it's coming from and somehow manifesting all of that anger into something positive, which is such a hard job.

Amanda Palmer

#63. Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne claire artwork and fluid storytelling makes The Rainbow Orchid easily one of the best graphic novels of the year.

Bryan Talbot

#64. I have been asked to collaborate with fashion houses using my artwork, which I will probably do.

Helmut Lang

#65. If I'm in the business of making artwork that is designed on some level to sell a product, then I have to be very comfortable with the people I'm working with and I'd like to be proud of the end result regardless of its sale-ability.

John Dyer Baizley

#66. After I see a painting, I go into a room, I close my eyes and I slowly escape into the beauty of the painting. I reflect on the painting, the nuances of the artwork, it's theme, mood and highlights -until the magic of the painting flashes before me.

Srinidhi.R

#67. I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve.

Nikki Sixx

#68. I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.

Pink

#69. The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.

JR

#70. Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

Jeff Koons

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

William Webb

#72. They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork.

Lil' Wayne

#73. While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.

Eric Maisel

#74. Each artwork requires its own design

Siren Waroe

#75. Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork ... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.

Agnes Martin

#76. I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Bill Griffith

#77. I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

Jeff Koons

#78. At the end of the day, no one gets a prize for simply getting it accurate. A bit of artistic theatrics can go a long way in making a painting a piece of artwork instead of just another picture.

Richard McKinley

#79. There is not one piece of artwork I have ever done that lived up to the vision I had for it in my head. That's why I keep on trying. Maybe someday I'll do it. I don't want to be in the past. I want to get to the next thing.

Jim Steranko

#80. Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

Robert Greene

#81. I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.

Leonid Afremov

#82. What?" he says all innocent-like and shrugs. "I like it. Besides, I paid good money for that artwork." A smirk plays on his full lips.

Shannon Duffy

#83. There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.

Nate Lowman

#84. Before she was allowed to take the albums out of their sleeves, Eleanor used to lay them out on the floor and stare at the artwork. When she was old enough, her dad taught her how to dust the records with a wood-handled velvet brush. She could remember her mother lighting incense

Rainbow Rowell

#85. I get to do some kind of artwork almost everyday and it just so happens that I can pay the bills and support my family while doing it.

William Webb

#86. It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

Chuck Palahniuk

#87. If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#88. If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.

George L. Carlson

#89. You and I are so much alike, Isa; different, but alike. You threw yourself into your artwork to help cope with your abusive situation and to let your secret desires out, and I embraced it to forget about my parents' death.

Ella Dominguez

#90. People quickly look through things and don't sit and experience. That's a problem with artwork, [because] it's more of an experience than something to quickly look at. It takes a while for everything to unveil itself.

Ali Banisadr

#91. I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

Paloma Faith

#92. I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

Ian MacKaye

#93. I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.

Zara Phillips

#94. Whitman Press will publish three children's textbooks, based on your creed, for which you'll deliver manuscripts and artwork. The three books are: 1. Dagon and Jill 2. The Shadow Over Humpty Dumpty 3. A Children's Necronomicon (with pop-up section)

H.P. Lovecraft

#95. Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us creates and solves problems on its own. Often, enigmas that baffle our brains are dealt with easily, unconsciously, by the hand.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#96. Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that is better left in the realm of one person's unconscious if it is to speak to another person's unconscious.

Philippa Perry

#97. The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the record, the final masters, the artwork. Basically, I hand them a record.

Regina Spektor

#98. I think sometimes in artwork or writing or music, you discover something that just needs to be created. It's not even something that you want to create... You're just pulled into it like an instrument. Like you're part of a bigger plan.

Danika Stone

#99. I'm trying to create artwork that makes people, and myself, think about judgment as a reflex. This is something that must be changed.

EL Seed

#100. Don't sit and wish for some ideal; the grass is not always greener with the big house and cars and artwork.

Jonathan Coleman