I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it ge…

- Mark Ryden

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image …

- Mark Ryden

Blood is very powerful. While meat is the substance that keeps our living souls in this physical reality, blood keeps our meat alive. Blood is liquid…

- Mark Ryden

I believe that beyond the arena of art, the world would be a much better place if centered around a feminine perspective. The world has been really m…

- Mark Ryden

I often look around me and think about this specific place in time, and what things will endure and become objects of nostalgia for the future. Pokém…

- Mark Ryden

The present moment is all we will ever have. Only the forms change. Someone living in the actual 1890s would have the same feelings of what's modern …

- Mark Ryden

Inspiration is the most valuable commodity for an artist; it is for me anyway. I can't move forward in any way if I don't feel a strong spark of exci…

- Mark Ryden

The vast amount of time it takes to make my paintings is very challenging. I have so many exciting ideas I would love to bring to a final painting, b…

- Mark Ryden

My painting technique has not changed that much over time, although perhaps I am painting tighter and with more detail, in spite of a desire to loose…

- Mark Ryden