Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years….
Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft..
What would Tyler Durden do?.
When I get to the drawing, I really enjoy taking a big chunk of time and working on the drawing and nothing else. That allows me to make sure that I'….
I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer..
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletaria….
The art of pleasing is the art of deception..
Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the credit card or check book. The gall….
I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like w….
Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be..
We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger mar….
It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sel….
I'm very tolerant of other art and other artists. But what I truly appreciate, what I truly admire in contemporary art, is work that takes on more th….
Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art..
I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all nigh….
We get things wrong before we get things right..
I'm so immersed in my little world that I don't often sit back and pay attention to what's going on around me. It truly stuns me when people recogniz….
In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in t….
Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious..
I do feel that the world is entering into a period of the incredible period of reflection and introspection. A lot of people are questioning the futu….
Great art picks up where nature ends..