Yusaku Maezawa Quotes

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I will preach with my brush.

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

The artist in me cries out for design.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

When I wake up, I can't wait to get to the studio, go into the paint room.