Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Chuck Close
I've always thought that problem solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not work is salvation.
I am going for a ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Jean-Michel Basquiat
I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.
Since I was 17 I thought I might be a star.
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist, or I'd draw a ram's head, ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Richard Prince
I don’t see any difference now between what I collect and what I make. It’s become the same. What I’m collecting will, a lot of times, end up in my work.
It would be strange for me to think I’m being ripped off, because that’s what I do! In those ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Mark Rothko
The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions. The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Jackson Pollock
Every good painter paints what he is.
The painting has a life of its own.
It’s all a big game of construction, some with a brush, some with a shovel, some choose a pen.
The method of painting is the natural growth out of a need. I want to ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Andy Warhol
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
I always think I don't do the first one good, so I ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Francis Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
I don’t think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.
I paint for myself. I don’t know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Willem de Kooning
In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are, as ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Lucian Freud
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not ...
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