Johnny Flynn Quotes

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

David Hockney is best known for his work with paint and canvas, but he has also worked in media as diverse as Polaroid-photo collage and fax painting.

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud.

I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it.

I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.

Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

Those damned Abstract Expressionists. They were a major problem. Because the critics adored them to such an extent, reams and reams, pages and pages of articles about Abstract Expressionists, when we came along, we were just not taken seriously at all.

Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern.