One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they... →
Marilyn French
I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending... →
Tom Freston
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.
Lucian Freud
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... →
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
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... →
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it... →
James Frey
When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel... →
When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.
Jerome Isaac Friedman
As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school... →