Michael Graves Quotes

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

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.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

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

I will preach with my brush.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.