Erica Jong Quotes

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision.

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to becoming an artist. For me it wasn't art school. I didn't have that go to art school and then get a gallery. It's more like, how deep is your inner library to cull from. It's certainly not about technical prowess, just about depth of investigation. It takes time. I had 15 years of painting under my belt before my first New York show. I was glad to have that. It's a good thing to spend your twenties getting your craft.

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

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

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

Art is an investigation.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with.

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.

Space is the breath of art.