Even the creative things feel mathematic, almost.
The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns of the dry season in St. Lucia.
When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
You can't rush an art form.
So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.
Some people have just got a capacity for creativity that's unbelievable!
My family has always been inclined to any form of art.
An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.
I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.
The most important thing in art is taste.
I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.
