I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
I need to be working with the art world in N.Y.C. as much as I need to be working in my studios in Chicago and rural Wisconsin.
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.
