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

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

It is the masculine dynamic that has caused our society to place money and corporate profit above human beings. It has allowed the earth to be viewed…

- 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

Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over just because I didn't like the feeling of…

- 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

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

I believe if you follow your heart and do what you love, success will follow. If you enchant yourself, others will be too.

- 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