Hugh Newell Jacobsen Quotes

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

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.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

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

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings... the first artist to ever go to another world and try to tell stories that people care about.

I don't have keepsakes from shows, really. It's in the work. It's all there.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

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

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.

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

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.