Michael Bastian Quotes

I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

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

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.

I had always loved Haitian art, but I stumbled onto Haiti quite by accident. I went there on vacation after finishing a movie called 'The Delta Factor,' and I met lot of painters and fell in love with their folk art.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.

The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

I love to collect modern art.

I have a pretty big range of interests. I love art; I love going to the museums. I dabble in painting, and although I'm not very good at it, I enjoy it.

I've always been really fascinated by Vincent van Gogh.

I would love to be able to share my artwork with as many people as possible so that I can help spread an appreciation for art in general.

There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have to show up. That is something that is both sad and kind of beautiful about it. It remains analog. It remains special and irreducible.

I'm a folk artist at heart.