Peter Stormare Quotes

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

Art should not be an easy thing.

Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to work.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge.

Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.

Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

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?

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.