Mixed Media Art Quotes

I love to paint, do ceramics, photography. I got a lot of side things that I like to do.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

While painting I noticed a piece of madras cloth on the floor. As usual, my mind started working overtime and a pair of scissors and a small amount of glue later...I created THE COMEDIAN. Everybody loved the uniqueness of the painting. It was indeed a hit.

The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So for me, I think growing up wanting to be an artist, I always imagined myself sort of crossing over or mixing media and so it was a natural evolution for me to try to express in a filmic way or in a visual way. It just kind of seems like a natural sort of progression for me in terms of what I'm trying to do as an artist.

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

At my first exhibits, people were saying that's just a light on the wall.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.

I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it's always been that way.

As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography is used - as pastiches of textiles are used in crazy-quilts - to form a mosaic. Whatever value the montage may have derives from painting rather than the camera.

I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting.

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.

Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings… Select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It engenders a spirit of gratitude. It develops latent talent, sharpens your capacity to reason, to act, and to find purpose in life. It dispels loneliness and heartache. It gives a renewal, a spark of enthusiasm, and zest for life.