Heart Evangelista Quotes

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

'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.

I think the problem is when people hear 'arts education,' they think, 'I don't want my son to be some painter that's going to be hanging in some museum after he dies. I don't want my daughter to be a struggling artist making no money.' People don't realize it's more than that. It's beautiful. It brings beauty to our lives.

When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But now I do about 14 exhibitions each year.

Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

One of the expectations growing up was that I'd become a well-known artist.

The frame is the reward of the artist.

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

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

The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, 'Do you like Anselm Kiefer?' He would stare at you with a blank stare, because these are not celebrities. They are celebrated in a specific circle.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.

I follow the work of my contemporaries. I love their work.

My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.

I believe in an artiste's life, there are two kinds of awards - first is the appreciation and good wishes he or she gets for his work from the audience and secondly, the recognition in the form of awards.

Music, dance, literature and the visual arts open up a rich and intensely rewarding world. It is a world that should not be the preserve of the few.

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.

I remind myself Vincent van Gogh died without having sold a single painting. Like, art is not measured by the trappings that people attached to it. It's the thing itself, and so, as you know, it's been a dream of mine to write songs for Disney, and so, it's really exciting to finally hear. It's two and a half years.

Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a rotting cow's head covered by maggots and swarms of buzzing flies may be pretty unsellable. Until the artist becomes a star. Then he can sell anything he touches .