James Ransone Quotes

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

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

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

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.

Life and art are inseparable.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.

Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important we keep creating.

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.