Melissa Marr Quotes

Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also encourage individuals to sharpen their skills and to nurture their imagination and intellect.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.

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 really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.

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

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.