Gerard Malanga Quotes

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.