Jerry Saltz Quotes

Generally, when I tell people I'm a painter, they ask me if I have a card: 'Yes, we'd like this room in this color.' I still might get cards that say 'Mark Bradford. Painter.'

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

Art is much more confined by materials than writing is.

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

I am only an artist.

I just call myself an artist, really.

I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

Except theatre, there is no medium which can satisfy good artistes in India.

I didn't have any real idea that I was going to be an artist; I had no idea what that meant.

As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.