Quotes from Deborah Solomon

a lack of influence is of course its own kind of influence.

the moment you follow someone else, you cease to be your own leader.

art was a process of evolution - not revolution...

to be an artist is to assert one's will, but to be a woman is to relinquish it.

painting was not so much an art movement as a mission to free people from material concerns.

James Montgomery Flagg emerged almost overnight as America's preeminent poster artist. As

his hands got in the way of his art, preventing him from recording sensation as quickly as he experienced it.

one must destroy in order to create.

the poetry lies in the crude handling of the paint rather than in the subject matter.

It's as if a thousand different sensations have been merged, but just barely, and only by a superhuman act of creativity.

The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.

If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.

Art never lies, I believe.