Eric Fischl Quotes

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

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.

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

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

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

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

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

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.

My art completes my life.

When it comes to art, you just need to be focused on doing a great thing. Not thinking all about the business.

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.