Nile Rodgers Quotes

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.

I want to bring art into everything.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

When I make a picture, I make love.

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

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.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place.

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a conversation about art history. I actually really enjoy looking at broader popular culture.

I love to zoom in and study why a chord is making me feel a certain way, but then I've learnt to zoom out again. Because if I'm not actually feeling it, there's not much point making it in the first place.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.