Bob Dylan Quotes

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.

Being so pathetic, I don't read. I just ... do things - writing out interviews you can't read, on pictures of footprints and things like that. I kind of like the idea of nailing the thing down and not really showing too much about it. There's just so much you can take for collage nowadays.

The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation - if not the representation - of the plastic values of reality.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

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.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

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.

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for the final image of it. But the most interesting thing about street art is to see it for real, to understand what it means and where it's displayed.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

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.

I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

I try and take the photographs and paintings and make them real. And the real video we treat as paintings. We flip the reality.

People assume that a self-portrait is narcissistic and you're trying to reveal something about yourself: fantasies or autobiographical information. In fact, none of my work is about me or my private life.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.