Art Mediums Quotes

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

I think art was the one thing my high school didn't give. And I think that was probably one reason why I was interested in it.

I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without Men.' I also write essays about visual art.

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

I want to know art.

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

Ray Johnson was a great innovator of mail art and photocopying and sending people photocopies.

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.

When you're looking for a sketchbook, you've got to find the right paper for the pens you like to use. I like to draw on both sides of the page.

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.

I always thought about 'Station to Station' as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist.

The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.