I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.
Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.
Regardless of your support, you need to make work.
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.
There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.
Edith: My God, what is this? It looks like a genuine Van Gogh, but I've never seen it before... Dan: Is that an original, John? John Oldman: No, it's just a gift someone gave me. Edith: Still, it's a superb copy. Contemporaneous I think, may I take a...
Art is a harmony parallel with nature
I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
