Alan Bean Quotes

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

The great thing about being an artist is, we want our work to be seen.

My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.

Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

Through art, you create your own world.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

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 make a picture, I make love.

I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out what's going to work. Ever since I was in art school, I would read and get ideas. Sometimes the photograph sparks an idea in me, and I continue in that direction.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

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

I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

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

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.