Artist Quotes

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.

The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.

With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

I'm a warrior for light.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was aft

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

Buying art is not understanding art.