Visual Art Quotes

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. " "It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful." "Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad." "I don’t think film is like other art forms in that it’s a thing; it’s not a finished object, it’s an experience" "Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event." "To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event." "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks." "The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."