Ann Demeulemeester Quotes

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and practice it. And so every photograph becomes another subtle variation on the theme of the medium itself.

I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.

GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a verbal nature. Also I wanted to write a play where people were smarter than I was, and more alive than I feel normally. I became interested in the idea of characters who would surprise me. I guess one could argue that nothing comes out of you that wasn't within you to begin with, but maybe there are ways to trick yourself into becoming more an observer or an advocate for the characters.

It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it always begins with the writer. With the kernel of an idea, or a character, or an idea or a theme, or even an outcome. But for documentary photographers, photographs begin at that intersection of the real world and the imaginative inner world.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that's what you hold on to, and that's what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there.

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.