Dorothea Lange Quotes

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.

Patti, did art get us?' I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.' Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

I try to write art theory down and understand it but I'm not a writer. I don't want to impress people with my writing. I'd rather impress people with my ability to see and feel it and then share that.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Everybody has a favorite song, but everybody don't have a favorite painting.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

The exercise of criticism always destroys for a time our sensibility to beauty by leading us to regard the work in relation to certain laws of construction. The eye turns from the charms of nature to fix itself upon the servile dexterity of art.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.