Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Art is really more musical than it is visual.

A picture should be looked at - not talked about.

Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.

My paintings are not meant to be tasted.

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure out a way to articulate it... It's like looking at a painting: you're able to take in the totality of the work all at once, and so processing whatever information that painting is giving you is almost secondary to simply apprehending what's in front of you.

Through art, you create your own world.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel at a given moment. I was sitting in a chair and felt it pressing against me. I still have the drawings where I depicted the sensation of sitting.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

I think sound and vision are all vibratory emanations... it's the way the soul flowers: art and music.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

Being an artist, you soak up imagery, and you put it back out in whatever form you do your own imagery.

An artiste's input, her ability to create dimensions within the given space is very important.

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.

I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way, it's this beautiful art form and that's what it feels like for me. I'm not a painter, but I can express myself visually in a way that allows me to artistically create.

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.