Quotes About Art

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.

I find myself chatting with my paintings, not deep and meaningful stuff, but things like 'hey there buddy' and 'oh, look what I did to your nose!'

Most early Icelandic paintings are landscapes.

A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.

My paintings are rubbish.

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.