Ben Eine Quotes

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Obviously, I respect the expression of different artists. I do not judge or criticize the style of anyone.

I think Baltimore is a wonderful artistic community with a lot of great musicians. It's kind of like a little secret for musicians.

Music, dance, literature and the visual arts open up a rich and intensely rewarding world. It is a world that should not be the preserve of the few.

I just believe that in Atlanta, we're creative; we got a lot of styles out here.

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art - to appreciate Jane Austen, the late quartets of Beethoven.

My sister sings, and in Mexico, we have these things called 'Casa de la Cultura,' which are specific places where they actually foster culture. They support people who want to do something in culture.

You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So I live by that rule.

I would have been an artist, because I studied art and history in school and college.

As a creative, as an artist, I'm just excited when people want my stuff, and want to experience it.

It's really terrific to see Pittsburgh recognize the Mattress Factory.

I'm happy that good works by young artists with limited chances will see the light of day by my purchasing them.

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

I try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by other movies, because then you just are talking about movies in movies. I try to talk about movies that are culturally and spiritually a little more diverse.

We both [with Jo Andres] think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all kinds of theatre and all kinds of art because you never know what moves people. We've always believed that there should be a strong voice outside the commercial world. Certainly, the commercial world has a huge place in our culture and we also support that - but, we also want to support the stuff that lives outside of that.

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.

This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through art is extremely valuable to the community. The arts belong to everyone and our work should reflect that diversity.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.