Leo Sayer Quotes

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

I believe in art.

Art is a continuum.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

I love an art-school girl. I mean... don't we all?

Art is good but it isn't the best.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Art is competitive.

I've never said, 'I live for art.'

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.