Alberto Giacometti Quotes

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

The value of art is in the observer.

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

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

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

What is art but a way of seeing?

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.