Even the creative things feel mathematic, almost.
My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
Photography is Art and Art is Photography.
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.
The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film - as in Husbands and Wives - is highly jagged, neurotic, fast-paced, nervous New York film, it just called for that kind of shooting, editing and performance.
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.
I feel it's my job as the artist who is making the music to pair it with visuals that I see in my head while writing the music in the first place.
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.
(Art is) the residue of vision.
...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and sculpture, among the many other such creative means, that helped articulate the sufferings of [these] people that were heard around the globe.
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.
The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
