Quotes About Collage Art

#1. It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

Norman Lear

#2. Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that we see every day. It's familiar. It reflects our reality.

Elliott Hundley

#3. Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.

Charles Baudelaire

#4. I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple collage type work. But at home I was beginning to get interested in doing my own thing as well. I'm not sure what inspired this, but I became very interested in decorating things.

Paul Smith

#5. You go home happy, you go to work happy, you make a better project because everybody loves it and loves each other.

Aldis Hodge

#6. I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

Thomas F. Wilson

#7. In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

Shunryu Suzuki

#8. Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Fran Lebowitz

#9. It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

Val Kilmer

#10. I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

Georg Brandes

#11. It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

Steve Buscemi

#12. Yes, I have made a woman cry.

Enrique Iglesias

#13. I panted like a whore in church. The Church of Simon ... where I was dying to kneel before him.

Alice Clayton

#14. It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.

Lemony Snicket

#15. All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

Oscar Wilde

#16. I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

Henry Rollins

#17. Be prepared to see it all. If you want to create - God help you if you do, God help you if you can - don't you dare commit the immorality of stopping on the surface. Go deep and take your fair salvage. Do it no matter how much it hurts.

Stephen King

#18. You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

Anne Roiphe

#19. Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.

George Herbert

#20. It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.

Andy Clark

#21. If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.

Brene Brown

#22. The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.

Peter Drucker

#23. Collage is more than just an art style. Collage is all about bringing different elements together. Once you form a sensibility about connection, how different elements relate to each other, you deepen your understanding of yourself and others.

Bryan Collier

#24. We each are artists of the self, creating a collage -- a new and original work of art -- out of scraps and fragments of identifications. The people with whom we identify are, positively or negatively, always important to us. Our feelings toward them are, in some way, always intense.

Judith Viorst