Richard MacDonald Quotes

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

I need art around me always.

I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.

I would love to be able to share my artwork with as many people as possible so that I can help spread an appreciation for art in general.

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

(Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me.

I don't think you can tell somebody how they should collect. I think it's just about being turned on by art.At the end of the day, some people just kind of get it. They don't all get it in the same way or get the same artists, but it's a journey that excites them.

A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once.

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

I know when I watch certain actors or if I watch Thom Yorke sing on stage, I'm affected by it emotionally. I guess that's what we are all striving for in art but that's such a beautiful thing that happens between two people that may never even meet. So when you do get to meet someone who was affected in that way, it's awesome.

I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don't move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.