Henry Flynt Quotes

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

The temple of art is built in words.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork... they will receive my new work als they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn.

If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?