Dwayne Hickman Quotes

Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.

The sun never sets on my gallery.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.

One day I would like to have my own art show.

I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York.

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.

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

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

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in the art world. I got invited to write a libretto for what we called a projective opera, and I also got invited to curate an art exhibit.

As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

I can concentrate on my art.