Ralph Gibson Quotes

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

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

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

I want to bring art into everything.

When it comes to art, you just need to be focused on doing a great thing. Not thinking all about the business.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

When I make a picture, I make love.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.