Creative Expressions: Artist Quotes and Inspirations (Page 4)

"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures"

"I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like"

Jaime Hernandez, Artist

"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul"

Wassily Kandinsky, Artist

"Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body"

Matthew Barney, Artist

"I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that"

Matthew Barney, Artist

"Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed"

John Hench, Artist

"I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will"

Don Bluth, Artist

"I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz"

Don Bluth, Artist

"Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes"

John Hench, Artist

"And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"To me, sex is sex and I don't think it is or should be a problem. Maybe my presenting it that way will unscrew up a few heads out there, including my own"

Jaime Hernandez, Artist

"There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

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