Zac Posen Quotes

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

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

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

My paintings are rubbish.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to Granny.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

An artiste's input, her ability to create dimensions within the given space is very important.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.