Paul Kane Quotes

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.

Not every work of art connects with the audience.

When art works travel from place to place, what you have is the opportunity to engage with the intellect of another person who has made a thing that should have enough information in it in the way it's constructed to start thinking about why that picture got made - not why it is relevant to you.

I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.

I definitely feel sorry more people don't get to see my films. They aren't inaccessible, and if people got the chance to see them, I know they'd like them.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.

You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren't any hidden secrets or things that you're supposed to understand.

I don't aim to make art in a vacuum - you want people to like it.

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art.

I don't enjoy art.