Visual Arts Quotes

We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.

To draw is to make a record of the process of seeing.

Ideas alone can be works of art.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

I am interested in the void, the moment when something disappears, or is about to disappear, or has just disappeared.

I'm interested in the kind of human beings that are not beautiful, not glamorous, not heroic, but the kind of people you see every day.

I try to make a beautiful form, a beautiful volume. That is all.

The true artist must be a poet, a philosopher, and a man of the world.

And I strove to imitate the Greeks, not only in their proportions but in their compositions.

I have fallen into a chasm. I live in a world so curious, so strange. The world of the mad.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

To be a sculptor is to be a maker of objects, and the objects are made to be seen and touched and walked around.

I like to make things that are not fixed, that move, that are alive.

I have made the gods in my own image.

I have set myself to create a god, not a man.

Art is not nature. It is a harmony parallel to nature.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another.

I don't think I'm a great artist. I'm a good illustrator.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.