Margaret Wertheim Quotes

Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can't be earned any other way. It's obvious that people learn faster from 'hands-on' experience than they do watching someone else do something.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.

I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

I am making art. It's not a job that you've gotta show up to and fill in your slot. This is a dream come true. You get the opportunity to say something, to make a piece of art and hang it on the wall forever. Sometimes you're gonna have to take your time.

People are visual and hands on learners.

When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.

You don't study photography. You do it.

Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.

We should learn to think with our fingers.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

The making of art is no different than prayer.

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

Acting to me is a very organic art form and you just go and do it. And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed. Let me bring in what I want to bring in, and if something's wrong, just tell me about it and I'll make some corrections or adjustments. And that's what I do.

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.

I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.