China Chow Quotes

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

Artists need to express.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

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

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

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Art is all a matter of personality.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

I went to art college. I like to be creative. I use food as my medium at the moment but it could easily be illustrations in the future, or something else.

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

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place.

My approach is simple. It is nothing other than what I am thinking at the time I make each piece of clothing, whether I think it is strong and beautiful. The result is something that other people decide.

Yes, I'm very expressive with my painting.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

Through art, you create your own world.