Quotes About Art

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy.

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part of that, really; I've been much closer to fantasy.

My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

I create neo-surreal gardens with my paint brush

I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.