Rhys Ifans Quotes

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

I write my music.

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

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.