Artistic Knowledge Quotes

I know the musical world as well as I know the comedy world.

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

Become acquainted with every art.

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot about lenses, about the editing room. I know what the different buttons on the camera are for. I know more or less how to use a microphone. I know all that, but that's not real knowledge. Real knowledge is knowing how to live, why we live, things like that.

I don’t know much about the arts, so I’m going to keep my cotton-picking hands off and let you people take care of it.

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.

You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.

It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

I don't worry about whether anyone knows anything about art.

I used to teach on a college level, and I've taught in schools where kids just wanted to be artists, and I used to be furious with them if they didn't read, because they just seemed so - their education seemed so thin if all they could do was pick up a paint-loaded brush and fling it at a canvas. I mean, there was nothing to express there, except maybe their own personal feelings. But if they're not - if they don't have a grounding in the way these things have been expressed by other people down through the centuries, then they're lost.

Pytheos made a mistake by not observing that the arts are each composed of two things, the actual work and the theory of it. One of these, the doing of the work, is proper to men trained in the individual subject, while the other the theory is common to all scholars.

Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.