Art Medium Quotes

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

I never draw except with brush and paint.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

I went to art college. I like to be creative. I use food as my medium at the moment but it could easily be illustrations in the future, or something else.

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture.

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.

People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others think it's an entertainment medium, it's not that either. It's an advertising medium. It's a method to deliver advertising like a cigarette is a method to deliver nicotine.

I don't really discriminate with my art. To me, it's my art, and it's to be expressed through whichever medium is there, whether it's treading the boards in the theater, on the small-screen TV, or on the large screen. I love theater, and it's definitely something I would love to do.

Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.

I do tend to use watercolors - I love the splatter sort of thing you can do with watercolors.

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing - to see yourself seeing.

We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.