That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
In art, the obvious is a sin.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.
Where thou art, that is home.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
I always said God was against art and I still believe it.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.
I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition.
For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as profound, and in my work for years I've really tried to deal with subjects that are substantial, not just...
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
History develops, art stands still.
I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all these things are in play all the time. I think it's what makes the excitement of creativity for the artist.
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
