Lou Reed Quotes

If there is one thing that is foreign to me it is shopping for pleasure. On the other hand, I believe that it is right to honor all those who create beautiful things and give satisfaction to those who see me wearing them.

Doing beautiful things is its own reward.

I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

I just don't know what makes a picture, really - the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I can understand. Just like one guy can write a sentence and it's beautiful and another one can write it and it's dead. What the difference is, I don't know.

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Today it’s economically crucial and personally rewarding to create something that is also beautiful, whimsical, or emotionally engaging.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Art is not only about angst.

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Art matters.

Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.