Giorgio Morandi Quotes

I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

When you look at my pictures, you are seeing my life.

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

I acquired quite a lot of technical skill and got quite a long way with my painting, but I never felt I was doing what New Zealand was about with my paint.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I have 30 years of experience working with Leos Carax, so all the films of Leos Carax are unusual or unique. I look at them as a journey: a journey which is very personal to Leos.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.