Ralph Steadman Quotes

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

The artist must continue to look for a new reference. Every day, every performance, every take.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.

I can concentrate on my art.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

Painting is very interesting.

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

Art is both creation and recreation.

The art of making art, is putting it together.