Edvard Munch Quotes

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

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.

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

I'm an image-maker.

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

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.

I really loved taking photos when I was younger. I think my love for photography sparked my love for creating the visuals to support my music.

I've exhibited quite a few of my photographs. I expand them digitally till they're very big. It's an art school thing, I suppose.

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

I'm not going to say I know a ton about what I'm looking at, but I enjoy capturing the photos and the artistry of it. I'm getting better at it, and I'll keep getting better.