Eduardo Risso Quotes

To create a work of art is to create the world.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

To understand a field, you look at its arts. Arts can be cautionary as well as inspiring.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

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.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

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

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.

How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and of our society. Providing us with a unique way to learn about people of other cultures, it allows us to discover all that we have in common. At its best, art can beautify our cities, encourage economic development and social change, and profoundly affect the ways we live our lives.

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.

In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

I think art can reflect tragedy.