Dave Gibbons Quotes

I always saw myself as a multi media artist.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.

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.

Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

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 is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings.

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

My art in my head just needs to come out for me - for my legacy and who I am.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.

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.

My painting does not come from the easel.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.