Miguel Quotes

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is.

I'm glad to say I'm experiencing more of a conversation in my artistic workforce world than I ever have before. But it's a job, as an artist, to reflect the world we live in; that's our job.

When you make a piece, one of the interesting things is hearing what other people think about it.

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

I will preach with my brush.

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

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.