Fay Godwin Quotes

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.

Although I consider myself a direct descendant of the Renaissance heritage, I believe that an artist has to follow his own evolution and not solely be a ruminant of the past, as glorious as it may have been. An artist conducts a search that may lead him far out in exploring new areas of interest. I continually search to discover new and better means of expression.

I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all kinds of different things.

Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.