Steve Coogan Quotes

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

I don't even consider myself an impressionist, really.

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

I'm not going to sit for some painting. That's so 1800s. I'm not doing that.

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.

Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

I'm not interested in pop art.

I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a conversation about art history. I actually really enjoy looking at broader popular culture.

I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.