Melissa Marr Quotes

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

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.

What amazes me is that you can have 10 different photographers in the same room, and you see 10 different rooms. You realize how much of it is the person's perspective rather than the situation itself.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

What is art but a way of seeing?

All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

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

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.