Artistic Imagery Quotes

I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.

While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.

Painting is silent poetry.

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

When I'm making a collage, there are a lot of things about it that are violent.

'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.

When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that ideal, I am not for a moment suggesting that art should shun the 'dirt' of the world. On the contrary! the artistic image is always a metonym, where one thing is substituted for another, the smaller for the greater. To tell of what is living, the artist uses something dead; to speak of the infinite, he shows the finite. Substitution... the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.

Lyricism is about painting a picture. It doesn't have to be a bunch of punchlines.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

I like to think of an image as different from a photo.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.

I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

God's colors all are fast.

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.'