Chiara Ferragni Quotes

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

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.

When I make a picture, I make love.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

I need art around me always.

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

I have so much love for art.

When I work on a part, one of the things I love to do is to put together a collage of things, stuff I see or stuff that inspires me, images, whatever.

I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna do now, what am I gonna do later.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

Works of art inspire me to compose.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

I admire a lot of photographers, but I feel very disconnected from them at the same time. I don't feel I employ any technique like these people in my work. I guess if there's any influence from any of these photographers, it's this: They were concerned only with beauty. Not with 'cool.' I hope I'm doing the same.