Artistic Idea Quotes

The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much execute it.

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art… If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty.

'Penny for Your Thoughts' was something I noodled on for a while.

Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the plastic construction, and it is always present all the time as energy creating matter. The stories and other literary associations exist only in the mind of the spectator, the painting acting as the stimulus.

I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him to be working class. Eventually I thought a bus was a perfect visual way to move him, to drift him through the city, to have a measured kind of routine lifestyle. And all these things kind of congealed into the film "Paterson" eventually.

When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.'

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly.