Karl Kraus Quotes

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

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

I was always exploring relationships between art and science.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Making art is different for everyone.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

Art is science made clear.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.