George Edward Woodberry Quotes

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

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

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren't any hidden secrets or things that you're supposed to understand.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

I am not interested in representing reality. Actually, I am interested in representing reality, but that doesn't mean a naturalistic approach, which I think is kind of impossible.

It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.