Travis Knight Quotes

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

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 realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

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

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person's is going to be different, every book reader.

It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and the vision and execution of the artist.

Artifice is art.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.