Richard Tuttle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience.Â I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the bottom of their souls that art is about the experience of reality. The reason we have art is because you canâ€™t get a real experience from the world.
-- Richard Tuttle

#Art #Real #Soul
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.
-- Richard Tuttle

#Thinking #Artist #Opposites
I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down, do not have the permanence I want in my mind.
-- Richard Tuttle

#Mind #Want #Permanence
Most of us go through the world never seeing anything. Then you meet somebody like Herb and Dorothy, who have eyes that see. Something goes from the eye to the soul without going through the brain.
-- Richard Tuttle

#Eye #Soul #Brain
Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is the art that actually carries something that tells society about self.
-- Richard Tuttle

#Art #Self #Drawing

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise
I sold my soul to the devil in L.A
When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.

Richard Tuttle famous quotes

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