Michael Giacchino Quotes

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

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.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist. But in this way, these projects reveal their identity through this whole process. When I'm starting, I only have the slightest idea of how the work of art will exist.

I start a picture and I finish it.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

When I make a picture, I make love.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.