George Segal Quotes

Through art, you create your own world.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

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

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

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.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

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 think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

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