“I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into details and see how to get the expression that we wanted. And her visual art is emotionally expressive as her singing was. And, I think, when she switched over to singing, she already knew that it was something serious that you broke into pieces so she developed the ability to break it down and learn little riffs that she could throw in here and there.” ThinkingLittlesArtWantedStrongAbilityBreakStudyPiecesSeriousExpressionSingingArt IsDown AndDetailsBrokeVisualsHere And ThereExpressiveVisual ArtCrossover Author:Laura Joplin
“For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each artist contributing to the next generation's advancement. I wanted to go a step further and extend the boundaries.” Has BeensArtRealityWantedArtistNextStepsGenerationsCenturyArt IsDiscoveryBoundariesDataVisualsExplorationNext GenerationAdvancementContributing Book:Breaking the rules: Audrey Flack, a retrospective 1950-1990 Source: Breaking the rules: Audrey Flack, a retrospective 1950-1990
“I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.” KindArtWantedArt IsClaimsJournalismFloatingCartoonist Author:Jeff Smith
“I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?” KnowsLooksArtShowsWantedFilmArt IsMartial ArtsWowExaggeratedArt Films Author:Wong Kar-wai
“What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.” PeopleTryingArtWantedArtistCoursesShareArt Is Author:David Hockney
“When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.” IfsKnowsWorldYearsMeanArtMadeSelfMomentsBigsWantedSchoolExpressionHugeAmountArt IsDecidedIntentionFedsEmphasisSelf ExpressionArt SchoolArt Education Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality, which I think is right. We know that Velázquez embezzled money from the Spanish court and wanted power and so on, but you can't see this in his art.” ThinkingKnowsArtSaidCharacterWantedArtistPersonalityArt IsCourtEliot Author:Lucian Freud
“There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form of fighting and defense and attack. Martial arts is king in this world. That was the first thing. We didn't want it to be a period piece either. We felt those are overdone and stuffy. That was what lead us to explore that area of science fiction and future, a world we can create and control.” WorldWantFirstsArtWantedFormFightingFeltFictionPiecesThis WorldKingsPeriodsArt IsGunAreasScience FictionDefenseMartial ArtsBulletsKicking Author:Miles Millar
“I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.” WayArtWantedRememberFilmModernArt IsSilentTechniqueSimplifyModern ArtSimplification Book:Rashomon Source: Rashomon
“I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.” WorldMindArtShowsWantedArtistCreativeArt IsCreative Mind Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson