Michael Heizer Quotes

I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawing.

I always saw myself as a multi media artist.

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

I really have to think of myself as a painter first because sculpture came much, much later. As a student at the Art Institute in Chicago, I simply never became involved in sculpture. I did prints, and I did paintings.

My gallery represents a lot of figurative artists.

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.