Rachel Dratch Quotes

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

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

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

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

My paintings are rubbish.

I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.

Making art is different for everyone.

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

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

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.