Aisling Bea Quotes

My paintings are rubbish.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

An artiste's input, her ability to create dimensions within the given space is very important.

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.

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

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

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

I wanted to be a painter.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.