Artistic Reaction Quotes

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

Those damned Abstract Expressionists. They were a major problem. Because the critics adored them to such an extent, reams and reams, pages and pages of articles about Abstract Expressionists, when we came along, we were just not taken seriously at all.

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.

You finish a project and start looking for something that might interest you. A lot of the films I've made are a reaction to something I've done right before.

As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

It may be fine for an artist to be indifferent to the reaction of the viewer to a work of art. A vigorous debate on issues is also beneficial. But the dark vision of a world without truth cannot be our future.

Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service.

Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer.

Fan reaction is so out-sized and hyperbolic in rock music compared to other arts.

I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.