Katherine Dunn Quotes

When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions or collections or meet an artist. It's all a compilation. Every moment, at all times, all this information. Then all this information disappears, and it shows up later in the process.

I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

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

I view art as an inspirational tool.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie Windsor and so many others, whose creativity is clear and fresh and compelling; the works break through the usual, and they inspire creativity; they inspire responses and understanding.

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.