Fred Tomaselli Quotes

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

Art is a sense of magic.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Art is an investigation.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality differently.

My mom's an artist in every way. She's a painter, a photographer. She's a wanderer - always searching, always seeing. I guess you could say my mom gave me her eyes.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.

To write is to look for very particular, specific points of view on reality.

I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.

It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.