If you think about art, if you look at Rembrandt and Vermeer and Caravaggio, if you look at Turner and Constable and all the Impressionists and the Hudson River School, there's a tradition of light in art, especially painting.
James Turrell
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like... PETER SAUL I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez... RONNIE WOOD There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk aroun... DAN RICE In order to bring me down.You have to be able to reach me first. PRAVINEE HURBUNGS There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designe... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people ... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn ... WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the... SUSAN VREELAND If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices tha... KATHY MATTEA Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don'... DAMIEN HIRST When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no li... MATISYAHU My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system,... TOM FRESTON Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have... RICK MORANIS If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me... ANDY WARHOL If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving. HENNY YOUNGMAN If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again. MICHAEL CHANG Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire un... LIONEL SUGGS To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature. DAVID HOCKNEY Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imaginatio... LL COOL J If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellne... LEROY HOOD If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marria... BOB NEWHART When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for... JON FAVREAU If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river... SARAH PARCAK If you look at the map, there's Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there's tiny Gallipoli. It is ... KERRY GREENWOOD In Art canvases DRAW answers and withdraw the silence of hidden lamps, illumination. GOITSEMANG SANDRA MVULA I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the inst... CLYDE TOMBAUGH I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's some... FIONA DOURIF It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can w... TOM STOPPARD You can't do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and... STACEY SNIDER You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the ... MARINA ABRAMOVIC If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you. STEVEN WRIGHT If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you. MARK HOPPUS If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents. MARCELENE COX If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer. ALAN LEWIS If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramat... DAVID DASTMALCHIAN There is no fear in the word LOVE! For LOVE does not know fear... PHILIP T. M. I totally think there was a country hair phase. If you look at all the mullets, and Dolly Parton, an... JULIANNE HOUGH Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An ... MARCEL PROUST Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mou... E. B. WHITE For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures ar... GORE VIDAL To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ROBERT SCHUMANN One day the world will look upon research
on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
... LEONARDO DAVINCI Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, i... A. ALVAREZ Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. JOHN LECARRE Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it le... ERICA JONG I have been no more than a medium, as it were. HENRI MATISSE The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel... ALEXANDER ELIOT Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Sco... MELVIN MADDOCKS Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath. OSCAR LEVANT The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ... MARIA LENHART Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior amo... CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT From the shore.. one looks
upward to the sanddune grass..
10,000
green brushes attempting
where the... SAIOM SHRIVER Anyone who contributes to the defense fund
of pornographers is a mental moonbeam. MIKE ROYKO Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. EDWARD STEICHEN You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a p... EDWARD STEICHEN I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy. OSCAR LEVANT There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ANSEL ADAMS An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. PAUL VALERY Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. AMBROSE BIERCE When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his li... G. K. CHESTERTON Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. HENRI MATISSE I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ROY LICHTENSTEIN Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. AL CAPP Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. TWYLA THARP I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass i... CLAES OLDENBURG Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. MARIE LAURENCIN Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ANDRE GIDE The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the da... CYRIL CONNOLLY Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Give me a museum and I'll fill it. PABLO PICASSO I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true ge... BECK Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in... ANDREA DWORKIN Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. ANDY WARHOL An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reaso... ANDY WARHOL I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession,... BARBRA STREISAND The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performanc... ANSEL ADAMS You don't take a photograph, you make it. ANSEL ADAMS When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when... ARTHUR FELLIG The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has inc... PAUL GAUGUIN For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. GEORGES ROUAULT A great artist is always before his time or behind it. GEORGE MOORE I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt li... IGOR STRAVINSKY Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art. JAMES BAILEY Of all lies, art is the least untrue. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. HUGH CASSON The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones an... HENRY MITCHELL The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the o... HENRY MILLE The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only a... GRACE GLUECK The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what d... JOHN UPDIKE The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. A... KENNETH TYNAN Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. DAWN FRENCH The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. DAVID HOCKNEY Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. FRANCOIS CAVANNA That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records mor... EDWARD GORDON CRAIG
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