Gunther Schuller Quotes

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

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

Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.

That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation - if not the representation - of the plastic values of reality.

Painting is more important than art.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel at a given moment. I was sitting in a chair and felt it pressing against me. I still have the drawings where I depicted the sensation of sitting.