Laurie Anderson Quotes

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

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

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

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.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

What appears on the screen is what people see. Everything else is just interpretation.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Viewing abstract art requires more imagination. The result is more intense involvement of the viewer—more pleasurable.

Like Love, Art ties together all the great sacred traditions because they all used creative expression, or we wouldn't know about them.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.

Art is truth.

No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it.

Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.

Pictures often sit inside of pictures, but the edges of pictures and objects are rarely subjected to serious challenge; we are presented with distinct, whole pictures and objects.