Kara Walker Quotes

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

My painting does not come from the easel.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

I always saw myself as a multi media artist.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but a marble statue is cold and speaks to but a few of the most evolved who are able to infuse the statue with their own life.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

I am just an artist.

The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master's in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.