Richard Prince Quotes

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

I believe in art.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.

I think that's why I became good at art. It was something that I could do that I could be really proud of.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

I design for a feminine woman who appreciates art a lot, either as a profession or as a hobby.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

People can see you on TV sloshing paint around with big four-inch brushes, and I learned to talk to camera in a friendly voice, not talking down to people, just explaining what I was doing. People like Picasso, Van Gogh, and Rembrandt did not have a weekly TV programme where people could see them painting.

It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and the vision and execution of the artist.

Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an aura of their own.

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