Tony Curtis Quotes

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

You know you are an artist if you appreciate beauty.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

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

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really had technical skills, but I've always felt like I appreciate really beautiful things, and part of taking a good photograph is being able to recognize beauty.

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.

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.