Jason Chaffetz Quotes

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.