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Visual Art Quotes

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

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
- Russell Banks

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
- Bjork

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
- David Bowie

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
- J Carter Brown

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.
- Carrie Brownstein

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
- Gavin Bryars

To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television.
- Chris Burke

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.
- Jonathan Lethem

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.
- Jonathan Lethem

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.
- P J Harvey

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
- Barbara Januszkiewicz

On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show her one, last, good time.
- Chip Kidd

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
- Eugenio Montale

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

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
- Camille Paglia

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.
- Buffy Saintemarie

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
- Harry Seidler

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
- Yahoo Serious

It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.
- Ville Valo

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

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

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