To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.
If I had gone to art college and everybody was being a conceptual artist, I probably would have wanted to be a portrait or landscape painter.
Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.
Our bassist, Tim Staffell, was at art college with Frederick Bulsara, who changed his name to Freddie Mercury and joined the band on vocals after Tim left in 1970.
I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
