Krzysztof Penderecki Quotes

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty.

From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.

Design is my biggest love. It consumes me!

Music creates order out of chaos.

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form.

I call architecture frozen music.

I love painting.