Quotes

“It’s a collaboration between the material en me.”

Anya Gallaccio

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“Art is difficult. It’s not entertainment.” 

Anselm Kiefer

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“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” 

Bertolt Brecht

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“Even the act of peeling a potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act.”

Joseph Beuys

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“It’s only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess.

Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take and the painting comes out well.” Jackson Pollock

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“Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.”

Roy Adzak

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” ’cause it feels like paint is running through my body, not blood.”

S.R.Gensch

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“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”

Bertolt Brecht

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“If people would just look at the paintings, I don’t think they would have any

trouble enjoying them. It’s like looking at a bed of flowers,

you don’t tear your hair out over what it means.”

Jackson Pollock

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“Thoughts that drift like leaves in the flight of the storm.”

S.R.Gensch

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“Imagination is more important than knowlegde.”

Albert Einstein

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“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”

Robert Rauschenberg

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“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be

absolutely ridiculous than asbolutely boring.”

Marilyn Monroe

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“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”

Jackson Pollock

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“When it comes to art, it’s important not to hide the madness…”

Atticus

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“The material that I am really still eager to work with is rubber.”

Eva Hesse