Ludovico Einaudi Quotes

If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.

To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.

One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean?

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.

For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to becoming an artist. For me it wasn't art school. I didn't have that go to art school and then get a gallery. It's more like, how deep is your inner library to cull from. It's certainly not about technical prowess, just about depth of investigation. It takes time. I had 15 years of painting under my belt before my first New York show. I was glad to have that. It's a good thing to spend your twenties getting your craft.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

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

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

Art is always a search for understanding, and the different levels and frequencies of that search feel completely comfortable and natural to me.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

Art is something that grows and breathes and lives, and it shouldn't be predicated on the success of box office - but it is. But within that, you have to give people a chance to find their voice, to play, to continue to create.

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

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all kinds of different things.

Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic that pressures art to incorporate the quotient of risk.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.