“My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.” ArtBookMotherArtistStrongMy OwnI've LearnedVisualsSoundtracks Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.” ThinkingAbleArtistActingVisualsStandpoint Author:Common
“It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.” PeopleWorldSometimesWantedArtistDifficultDecidedObservationVisualsFacilityExamining Book:David Hockney Source: David Hockney
“Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.” TryingBigsTogetherArtistAbilityPiecesSeeingParticularDrawsVisualsSomething NewSymphonyDotsBig PictureVisual ArtAbility To SeeVisual Artist Author:Daniel H. Pink
“Visual artists choreograph dances for the eyes, guiding visual journeys in specific ways. But when presented with little or nothing, the journeys of the eyes become erratic and finally still their restless searching. The eye and mind and heart grow quiet, come to rest, and begin to understand their own functioning more deeply.” WayMindHeartLittlesStillsEyeArtistGrowsJourneyQuietSimplicityVisualsHeart And MindRestlessVisual ArtErraticVisual Artist Author:John Paul Caponigro
“My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.” ArtistMy OwnFictionMomMy MomVisuals Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.” ArtBookMotherArtistStrongVisuals Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the photographs turn out to be boring and predictable. So I think thats why, a long time ago, I consciously tried to let go of artists angst, and instead just hope for the best and enjoy it. I love the journey as much as the destination. If I wasnt a photographer, Id still be a traveler.” IfsThinkingLongStillsSometimesArtistTurnsEnjoyInterestingJourneyLetting GoLong TimePhotographerPhotographBoringVisualsDestinationTravelerLong Time AgoMost InterestingPredictableAngstHoping For The Best Author:Michael Kenna
“As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.” ArtistVisionElementsConcernVisualsExclusion Author:Ken Danby
“What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.” WarEnoughProblemArtistStuffGoneForeverGloryPaintTechniqueImpressionVisualsImpressionism Author:A. Y. Jackson
“The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.” ActionArtistProcessClearPaintingCommunicationDrawingVisualsMechanicSculptureSpectators Book:Drawing and Sculpture Source: Drawing and Sculpture
“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
“Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.” Has BeensArtistGoalPerceptionInnovationVisualsMotivatedAestheticCriteriaProceduresPresentingVisual Perception Author:David Galenson
“Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.” ArtistColorExpressionVisualsSensibilitySensitivityInnatePalette Author:Scott Kahn
“Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.” ImportantArtistProcessLevelsRecordsInformationIntentionVisualsProvidingAggression Author:Leon Golub
“Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.” KnowsWritingWellsArtistReadingCreativitySuccessfulListeningDependsMusicianImportanceMusicalArtisticVisualsCompositionExposureVisual ArtVisual ArtistArtistic CreativityMusical CompositionSuccessful WritingExtensive Reading Author:Paul Laseau
“I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.” WantArtHardArtistTermHoursMaterialsFindingsResearchVisualsDepartmentImpressProps Author:Cary Fukunaga
“If you're going to be a visual artist, then there has to be something in the work that accounts for the possibility of the invisible, the opposite of the visual experience. That's why it's not like a table or a car or something. I think that that might even be hard for people because most of our visual experiences are of tables. It has no business being anything else but a table. But a painting or a sculpture really exists somewhere between itself, what it is, and what it is not-you know, the very thing. And how the artist engineers or manages that is the question.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsHardMightArtistCarPossibilityPaintingOppositesAccountsTablesInvisibleManageVisualsEngineersSculptureVisual ArtVisual Artist Author:Richard Tuttle