Antony Gormley Quotes

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

A picture is a poem without words.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible.

Dance should touch people.

Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of communication, of making one feel. Otherwise it would just be gymnastics.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Sound comes out of a life experience.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

Music is the soul of language.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.