George Perez Quotes

I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.

I start a picture and I finish it.

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

I'm enamored with the art world.

The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I think that when you're purchasing a piece of art it's a tremendous bonus to get to meet the artist because you get a chance to pick their brain a bit and find out first hand what the piece is about for the artist.

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'

When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

I believe in art.

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

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

Art is fun to buy.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

I'm saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time I'm in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.