Jessica Stockholder Quotes

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

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

Being an artist, you soak up imagery, and you put it back out in whatever form you do your own imagery.

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

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.

Making art is different for everyone.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

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

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

I made one untitled piece.

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.

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.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

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

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm doing is capturing unbridled emotion and putting it on canvas. It's like capturing lightning in a bottle.

Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.