St. Lucia Quotes

I want to know art.

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.