Duane Michals Quotes

I love film - it's like painting.

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

I love art and fashion.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Film and art are close together.

I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

A picture is a poem without words.

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

I guess when time came to make 'To The 5 Boroughs,' we had something important to say.

I really prize and love great painting.