Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischlis an American painter, sculptor and printmaker. His wife is painter April Gornik...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth9 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
artists create experience painting scale truth
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
artists believe connects everybody experience gives
Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.
art creativity excitement hope time
I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all these things are in play all the time. I think it's what makes the excitement of creativity for the artist.
sports art athlete
One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.
art should
Art should create an experience.
art thinking important
There's actually a disdain for the conversation about audience in the art world. Artist to artist, if you say, "What do you think about audience?" they would probably say, "I don't think about audience, I only think about my work," yet the audience is such an important part.
education artist generations
Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.
spiritual art believe
Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble of making something that goes out into the world if you didn't care about somebody else seeing it? It's like the difference between those who choose "more comfortably termed entertainment" versus what people think of as the "art life," which is supposedly more monastic or spiritual. I don't believe in those distinctions.
art worry art-is
If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.
artist
What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.
art believe work-out
The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do about that? You have some obligation to get the work out there, you believe in it enough that it should be out in the public, but of course it goes through a system that takes it pretty far away from the reasons you made them.
sarcastic art couple
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual tensions and the unhappiness roiling below the surface of our prim suburban lives. Meanwhile I was a suburban bad boy - cynical, sarcastic, contemptuous of all authority.
art believe mean
I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate; it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other.
express hierarchy others people
I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.