Marc Davis Quotes

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

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

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

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

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

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them.