Andy Warhol Quotes

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

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

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

Each painting, I feel like I kind of might have gotten something. If I feel like I totally got it, there's probably something wrong and it's not finished. And if I really feel like I understand it then I'm done with these paintings and I'll have to do something else.

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

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.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

Space is the breath of art.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

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

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.

I went to art college. I like to be creative. I use food as my medium at the moment but it could easily be illustrations in the future, or something else.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

I know first-hand what it's like to be judged and to have someone criticise your creativity, your hard work and your art.