George Edward Woodberry Quotes

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

I hope my pieces have an authenticity to them, but my job is to filter the world and tell a story, not to define and recreate exactly what's going on.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

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) the residue of vision.

Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. But there is a fine line to be drawn between pointing up something or distorting it.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

I write what I see; I paint what I am.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.