Quotes About Art

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?

I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.

I run a printing press from where I get my bread. If at all I get any butter, it comes from acting.

I'm interested in illustration in all its forms. Not only in books for children but in posters, prints and performance as a way of drawing people into books and stories.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

I'm known for color and prints and embroideries.

Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

I like to design funky things, and I love to mix prints and patterns together.

I paint because I love to paint. If someone buys the prints or whatever, so be it, but it's not my main form of business. As a performer, that is my main form of business.

In the work I do, historical elements tend to merge with contemporary forms, such as photo printing on furniture or bold sari prints, to create something unique and memorable.

I really have to think of myself as a painter first because sculpture came much, much later. As a student at the Art Institute in Chicago, I simply never became involved in sculpture. I did prints, and I did paintings.

Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.

Every artist has different priorities. Some artists I know don't make as much music as they used to, because social media has taken over their lives. I work at what I feel is a very normal pace, and things keep clicking. It's rewarding.

Once I made the decision to make art despite the obstacles and to make this my priority, things just opened up for me.

Music is always my first priority.

I would say to anyone starting out that if their priority in life is happiness, then don't be a musician.

In earlier comics, my only priority was telling a joke in the last panel, but now I try to make every panel as interesting as possible, and that normally means at least a li'l joke there.

I'm an actor, and so of course I want to see TV companies making good dramas. I want that to be a priority.

The priority for me has always been good films.

Acting is and will always be my priority.

My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.

I have always looked at the world through the prism of money to some degree. If you could follow the money, it explains a lot of things, in all sorts of aspects of the world. You can look at politics through the prism of money. You can look at art through the prism of money. You can look at sports through the prism of money.

For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don't mind being in the public, but it's just not really my personality, and it's not really why I'm into this. I like making art, and that's it. I don't really want to be a celebrity, seriously. I like my privacy.