Rex Harrison Quotes

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.

Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

My work is intensely personal.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

I don't think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have to feel good about who you are and that you could do something to change things.

To be an artist is to doubt yourself and try harder.

It's a weird thing about our business: You give everything you have, and there are moments where you go back and forth in your mind about if what you're doing is brilliant or a total disaster.

I treat my projects as art.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

When you're not hearing my voice, I'm working on art. So if you're not hearing me, I'm working for the people and getting inspired.

We go into the studio with the mindset of simply wanting to make something great.