Justin Tranter Quotes

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.

I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.

The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that's watching it: What do you take out of it?

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

On one level, of course, the notion of judging films or books or music against each other is completely ridiculous. Who's to say '12 Years A Slave' is a better film than 'The Wolf of Wall Street'? Or that one album in a certain genre is better than another in a completely different genre?

There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.