Juan Gris Quotes

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.

For me, music is pure abstraction.

... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!

But of works of art little can be said.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.