Anne Stevenson Quotes

In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

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

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.

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

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.

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

I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process; subject; ideas and feelings; visions and dreams; the words that are put down and the words that are avoided.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

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

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

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.

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

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

I start a picture and I finish it.