Quotes about american-artist
american-artist beginning direction early maybe pirates sketches trying
Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.
american-artist artist artists best educator future perform understand understanding unexpected
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
american-artist fooling start
That's the way I work. Usually I start by fooling with the stuff, make messes. Sometimes something comes out of it; sometimes it doesn't. Kenneth Noland
american-artist benefit decided work
I think actually it's been a benefit to me that my work has been in quilt form, that I decided to quilt my paintings, which is what I do. Faith Ringgold
american-artist fact hear people recognize saying trying
I think about what I'm trying to say and recognize the fact that people may see what I see or may hear what I'm saying or may not.
american-artist came car died father mother
Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.
american-artist music shakespeare wrote
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening. Captain Beefheart
american-artist appreciation bit considered current hopelessly people work
I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist. Maxfield Parrish
american-artist batman boy created figure format
I created the title, masthead, the format and concept, as well as the Batman figure and costume. Robin, the boy wonder, was also my idea. Bob Kane
american-artist best business entity money records releasing wait
I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could. Greg Ginn
american-artist aspect bands best easiest
We aren't as concerned about the live aspect as other labels. The best live bands are the easiest to record.
american-artist people scaring work
There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.
american-artist bands business constantly grown people side stayed surprised until
You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.
american-artist gotten homes involved living loved rescue saw
We've gotten involved in cat rescue - we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers.
american-artist catch instant public stick
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
american-artist materials natural painting power reason
I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that. Keith Haring
american-artist art artist becoming boom collecting combined growing interested investment people phenomena remain sincere time
People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.
american-artist individual original style unique
I feel that my original style was much more unique and individual and was much more the real me. It had much more zing and schmaltz.
american-artist dealt episode feels fought hard parents
I fought hard to get this episode on because it dealt with adoption, and how someone feels when they find out who their real parents are. Joe Murray
american-artist dealing life living states stories united
Jaime is doing the Hispanics living in the United States and dealing with life that way, and I'm doing stories about back home, basically.
american-artist five takes
I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours. Nicholas Sparks
american-artist create open spoken trying viewers work
I'm always trying to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so that they feel open participation. Jeff Koons
american-artist cheaper hate models paint
I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. Georgia O'Keeffe
american-artist drafted sailor sort
I was drafted in '45 and I was a sailor for a year. They didn't know what to do with me so they made a sort of photographer out of me. Ad Reinhardt
american-artist federal garbage reports toxic
Have you ever read those reports of the toxic garbage they put in tobacco, because there are no federal regulations that say otherwise? Max Cannon
american-artist close experience hang largest pictures within
I also hang the largest pictures so that they must be first encountered at close quarters, so that the first experience is to be within the picture. Mark Rothko
american-artist circumstance felt identify states united
I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make. Carl Barks
american-artist bit both felt pain pleased results time trying
I was pleased with the results but every time I look at both of those pictures, I feel a little bit of the pain I felt in trying to put it together.
american-artist audience cheating comic fast guess since
I guess I feel like I'm cheating my audience if I don't give them what I feel is enough since the comic doesn't come out as fast as I'd like it to. Jaime Hernandez
american-artist cartoons comic drawing editorial experience far school strips
I got my experience drawing for school newspapers. I was drawing editorial cartoons and comic strips as far back as I can remember. Mort Walker
american-artist fought graduated july june sent wars
I graduated in June 1943, and July 1, 1943, I was sent to the Pacific. I was 17. I was just a kid. Wars are not fought by old men, they're fought by kids.
american-artist audience black develop flag hated opened people
When the Minutemen opened for Black Flag shows, people hated them. We had to develop a Minutemen audience from different people.
american-artist mothers supposed
Mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right' Sean's doing his own thing. Yoko Ono