George Edward Woodberry Quotes

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

Being an artist, you soak up imagery, and you put it back out in whatever form you do your own imagery.

An artiste's input, her ability to create dimensions within the given space is very important.

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.