Visual Art Quotes: top 45 famous quotes about Visual Art

Visual Art Quotes & Sayings

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There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through — Dan Rice

In visual art it's better once to see, than one hundred times to hear. — Igor Babailov

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art. — Steve Mann

There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art. — Tim Crouch

The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time. — Alfred H. Barr Jr.

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives. — Massimiliano Gioni

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. — Julia Morgan

A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things. — Lazaro Hernandez

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love. — Molly Crabapple

Art can be thought of as a form of visual foreplay before the climax. — V.S. Ramachandran

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well. — Marketa Irglova

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests. — Chuck Close

Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life. — Matt Sorum

I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all- immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy- it saves you. — Susan Stroman

Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word. — Cathryn Louis

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language. — Julia Glass

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest. — Dean Mitchell

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors. — Dar Williams

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts. — Igor Babailov

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense. — Siri Hustvedt

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other. — Ken Danby

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material. — Chris Van Allsburg

They say all art - whether books, music, or visual - is a reaction to other art, — Blake Crouch

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku. — Frank Horvat

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. — Douglas Coupland

All art moves between the extremes. — Jan Fries

Visual journals are created in a secret language of symbols. Intentional or not, they are private maps only their makers can follow. — Jennifer New

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive. — Charles Gwathmey

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. — Thomas F. Wilson

I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art. — Sia Furler

Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs. — Temple Grandin

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories." — Denise Duhamel

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways. — Laurie Anderson

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer. — Kenneth Anger

All great art is a visual form of prayer. — Wendy Beckett

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting. — Ahdaf Soueif

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music. — Richard Dawkins

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette. — Barbara Januszkiewicz

It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing. — Deanna Petherbridge

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life. — Steven Spielberg

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. — Tomie DePaola

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. — Josef Albers

I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally. — Dave Matthews

I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place. — Lawrence Weschler