Brian Stelfreeze Quotes

It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

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.

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.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art.

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

I made one untitled piece.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

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

I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started making the connection between the art and the person making it, and when I heard that he was going to work on the cover for 'Seven Forges,' that connection was not yet cemented.

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.

I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

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

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and the vision and execution of the artist.

Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an aura of their own.

I feel that art is beyond language.

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.