Tuesday, February 10, 2015

“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”







“Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.”



“Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.”


“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”



“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”


“Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.”


“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”




“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”


“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”


Monday, February 9, 2015

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”


“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”


“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”


“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”


“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”


“Everything you can imagine is real.”


“As a writer, it’s interesting to talk to other artists and try my hand at different art forms. I’m intrigued by how the arts can overlap.”