Dana Schutz Quotes

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

When I make a picture, I make love.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I will preach with my brush.

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.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

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 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.

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?

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

When I wake up, I can't wait to get to the studio, go into the paint room.

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.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

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 don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

All I try to do is put as many colors as I can on the canvas every night.