Quotes About Art

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

I don't think fashion people know about my work. Some collectors find some of the work too intense.

The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

You know I've had work banned.

State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.

A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced.

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.