Stephen Chow Quotes

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far.

Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Make good art.

I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.