Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

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

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

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

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

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

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'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

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.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

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

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?