Eric Kandel Quotes

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

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

I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.

The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that's watching it: What do you take out of it?

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

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

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

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful.

When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.

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

It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.

I need art around me always.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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

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