Faith Ringgold Quotes

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

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

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

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

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

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.

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

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

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

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.