Quotes of: Andy Keyword

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

Fred Tomaselli

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

Georg Baselitz

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

Gustave Courbet

We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry.

Hasan M. Elahi

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Hans Hofmann

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

John James Audubon

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.

Jacob Epstein

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

Jenny Holzer

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Joshua Reynolds

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

John Singer Sargent

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

Louie Schwartzberg

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

Michael Heizer

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Philip Guston

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Robert Smithson

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

Robert Smithson

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

Robert Smithson

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

Sol LeWitt

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

Sol LeWitt

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

Thomas Heatherwick

Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.

Tony Scott