Anthony Fantano Quotes

Art is often defined as a famous masterpiece in a gallery, and we are meant to visit the work and view it to appreciate it. But that is not all there is.

Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

Obviously, something like ballet, you have music, you dance with the music and it's a very direct connection. With visual art, when there's no music that accompanies the art, such as great masterworks in a museum, you wind up interpreting what the artist is doing, how the artist made that work and what they're conveying.

An artiste's input, her ability to create dimensions within the given space is very important.

I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

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

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started making the connection between the art and the person making it, and when I heard that he was going to work on the cover for 'Seven Forges,' that connection was not yet cemented.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them.

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Viewing abstract art requires more imagination. The result is more intense involvement of the viewer—more pleasurable.

In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it.

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.