Steve Stoute Quotes

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

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.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

I made one untitled piece.

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

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

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.

I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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.

I am only an artist.

I gave up on the idea of making art a long time ago, because I wanted to know how to make paintings; but once I came to know that, reconsidering the question of what art is returned as a critical issue.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

I would like to be an artist who works in a very closed ambience.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.