Marcel Proust Quotes

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

As you are working on ideas, you are in a bubble, working on your images. What's important to me in my work, I like this idea of communicating through a piece of art so works don't have to be exchanged. They're okay and they're helpful but most importantly that the image will convey something in my mind that I was trying to communicate and then you have that connection.

The style depends on the subject.

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

If you want to communicate something, you'd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody.

Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it's real, and it cannot be denied.

When art works travel from place to place, what you have is the opportunity to engage with the intellect of another person who has made a thing that should have enough information in it in the way it's constructed to start thinking about why that picture got made - not why it is relevant to you.

Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.

I feel art has the power to bind us.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicating something, and about feeling like I have to be heard.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.