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
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.
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.
primary
My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.
distance thinking people
I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.
empathy alive connecting
Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.
country community important
Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.
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.
responsibility joy joyful
Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.
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.
character thinking opening-up
I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person's life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a creative person and I deal with it creatively.
education artist generations
Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.