I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.
Art is science made flesh.
I think objectifying women is not wrong if only her beauty is captured in an aesthetic manner.
Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.
Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.
Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.
This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves.
We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.
To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.
Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.
Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.
Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.
To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?
Fine art is knowledge made visible.
My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
I don't sell anything. So, I have a personal image, but I think that's because I'm from an art background, and I'm an artist, and I think most artists do have personal images. I consider myself more in that category of the way an artist had a look.
Makeup and fashion are a very blatant way of expressing who you are because it's the first thing people see. With music, it's more personal, where people really are trying to get into your head and learn about who you are.
Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is.’
Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.
