Art Quotes
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Science and art belong to the world, and the barriers of nationality vanish before them.
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.
I guess in a way anyone with enough ambition to create and not take away is someone who deserves respect.
I like things that give you those feelings all in one package - sadness and humor and horror.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.