Non-Traditional Art Quotes

I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

I have done quite a lot of outsider figures.

Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.

A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.

The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

Art is significant deformity.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.

I'm obsessed with the idea of genrelessness and generationlessness.

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn't define it in the early Fifties when I was starting out.

I'm not the average artist.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Warhol was proof that you can be revolutionary without being militant.

I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think.

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

I'm not like any other artist, point blank.