Chet Faker Quotes

What is art but a way of seeing?

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

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

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.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

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

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

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.

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

One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.

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

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality differently.

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.