Roger Vadim Quotes

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

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

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

Beauty really has such a wide field of interpretation. I guess that's why it's forever fascinating.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

When I make a picture, I make love.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

It's clever, but is it Art?