Antony Gormley Quotes

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

You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.

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.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

Art is longer than life.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.

Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.

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

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

Art is supposed to hold up a mirror to its audience and ask, 'What do you believe? What do you think? What do you feel?' and if you look at a painting and it makes you feel nothing, that's a feeling as well.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.