Roz Chast Quotes

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.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it's been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

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

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Painting is but another word for feeling.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.